Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.
Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.
Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.
I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.
Acting is such a weird job.
I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.
I've been wanting to do a play for years.
It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.
I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.
There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.
