Erik Griffin Quotes
I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'Is that the first time you said that?' It's something that you've said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, 'Oh my God, is that the first time you've done that?' you know that performance was where you wanted it.
Quotes to Explore
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
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The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'Is that the first time you said that?' It's something that you've said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, 'Oh my God, is that the first time you've done that?' you know that performance was where you wanted it.
