Quotes About Performance

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

The working hours are easy in films, while there is always an anxiety on television. So the energies are very different.

If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.

'Louie' is a beautiful show. I think it's art on television.

I've done a lot of television over the last years, and you know, with some television productions, if you can do with just one take, you can move on and do something else.

When I present 'Million Pound Drop', I'm screaming the right answer in my head just like you're screaming at the television screen.

It's not saving the world or anything but I still get such a rush from live television.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.