Jack Antonoff Quotes

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

One thing that I'm continually reminded of is just to always find something that will challenge you in a new way, a very new way, and that's not the easiest of roads, but it's the most exciting.

I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

I'm always learning, always trying new things, because you have to to stay fresh.