If I'm up at 4 in the morning, it's because I'm just coming in.
I track some long hours.
When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
Throughout my 20s it was all about achieving and working as hard as possible. To the point that you don't think twice about working in a music studio with no windows from 11 to 11. And you don't bat an eyelid if you fly four times a week and do promo in a different city each time.
Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you had.
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.
I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.
