David Hyde Pierce Quotes

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

Things are always very last minute with fashion, and you always have to be ready and have to be prepared at all times.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

But this is sports entertainment, so things can change on a daily basis. For that reason you have to be ready to go at any time.

I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

If you're out after 6 o'clock, have a jacket on, because you might go somewhere. People say, 'Oh, I ain't dressed for it.' But if you have a jacket on, you can go anywhere.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

Something that comics afford me is being able to change my mind at the last minute.

I've learned pretty quickly you better be able to adjust daily.

The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.

It's the fun part of this business: you never know what your day is gonna hold. Some things could be very, very last-minute. It could be at that very last second. So, it's pretty wild, and it keeps you on your toes. That's for sure.

It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

I'm never really trying to focus on one aim.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up somewhere completely different five years from now, something completely removed from acting - I could be perfectly content studying photography or English literature. At the same time, I love what I'm doing right now and could see doing this for a very long time.