Performance longevity Quotes

People ask me how I sang the role of the 'Phantom' 1,700 times. And I say that it's down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

I want to continue acting as long as I feel right about it.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I don't want to become world champion and lose it immediately. I want to become world champion, take over the division and take it from there.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind.

I think any of the older guys you can poll throughout the NBA, they're super-regimented. Because as long as that body lasts, your mind should be better; your shot should be better. But the reality is, at some point, your body does break down - you do get older - so it's just, how do you prolong that as long as possible?

I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even stand no more. Even then, I'll probably do my comedy special in a hospital bed.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

You need to be able to maintain a healthy voice and fit body to be able to give performances in a big theatre night after night.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You get to build stand-up - I really like that aspect of it. I like writing jokes, and you don't get to do that in improv.