Greg Daniels Quotes

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.

I like to warm them up with stand-up, get them into my world and tone, and then bring other characters on. There's so much you can do theatrically on stage. You keep changing the direction and angles, and then people don't get bored.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

Theatre worked as a big boost and improved my film career.

But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that day and go and do it that night, rather than waiting for a job that involves other people. So I did character stand-up, and then proper stand-up, and I loved it; I got addicted.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

I just love performing.

When you're on Broadway, what's kind of the whole point is that you find something new in the show each night.

The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.