In My Mind, I Was Always A

I've Gotten Very Cynical And Kind Of Anhedonic About All The Things I Have To Do To Get To Do Comedy: All The Travel, Hotels, And Airports.

The Truly Great Actors, Like Charlize Theron, Are Just Like, "i'm An Actor. For Hire. I Show Up, I Do My Job." There's No "i'm Just Waiting For The Inspiration." They Just Do Their Jobs. They Say, "let's Go Over The Scene A Few Times And Get It."

I'm Grateful That I Had That Uphill Battle For 10 Years Of Going Onstage And Having Nobody Know Who I Was, Because You Have To Win Them Over. I Have A Lot Of Friends Who Were Stand-ups, And They Just Stopped After A While, Because They Didn't Like That Battle. And Then They Would Get On A Sitcom And Get Visible And Get Back Into It, Because The Audience Was Just Way Easier On Them. That's Why They're Okay Stand-ups, But They're Never Going To Be Great, Because They Don't Have That Presence. They Never Built Those Muscles Up.

What You Want To Worship Above Youth, I Think, Is Beauty, And Beauty Is So Beyond Just Appearances After A While. Because You Can Be With Someone Who's Good-looking; If They Open Their Mouths And They're An Idiot, Then They Cease To Be Beautiful Very Quickly.

But For The Most Part, For The Majority Of A Stand-up Audience, You Better Have New Stuff They've Not Heard. And If You Put An Album Out, Just Consider That Material Gone. At Least That's How I See It.