Tim Minchin Quotes

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.

Comey is a particularly infuriating character, and I think what he has always been about, from when he was the deputy attorney general under President Bush, is about protecting his own reputation.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

I don't think you can protect anything in your life, let alone your image.

Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'

I never read anything that's written about me.

I have laid a very basic ground rule for myself. I should be a favourite with the audience, they should love me, my role, my acting, appreciate my talent. I don't want to repeat any of my roles, ever.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

A band's best and worst shows really aren't that far apart.

I don't read everything written about me.

It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not very good actors go in for self-advertisement.

I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.

It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later.

My fans do guarantee me a good opening on the day my film releases. So the responsibility is more on me on doing quality work.

I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.

Forget about musical credibility. I think, unless you're Radiohead or whatever, it's pointless striving for that. What I would like is some respect.

I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.

I turn down so many things because I don't want people to get sick of me.