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Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.