Performance Burnout Quotes

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

I can't wear same clothes and drag on a character forever.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.