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I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Self-doubt kills talent.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.