performers

Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.

If both the performer and audience are on the same plane then it's not ART but SCIENCE, for ART is a personal expression that varies from one individual to another, while SCIENCE commands uniformity & certainty! What are YOU?

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

Even the world__ greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening_

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

I had a blind date with a dentist _ and he told me to come back in six months.

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math _ if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun._I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

_but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.

_you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life_We are all crazy and crazed.

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy_

It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything _ staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.