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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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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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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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.
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The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.
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You know when you meet somebody and they're just good people? That's Andy Samberg.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia, it's for everything we've never seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we haven't read, all that food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only kind of real nostalgia there is.
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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.
