On-the-Fly Adjustments Quotes

Basketball players can adapt to any situation.

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

I love the no-huddle.

Something that comics afford me is being able to change my mind at the last minute.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

Coming on as a sub, it's always different - you never know what the game is going to be like.

I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.