Unrewarding Experience Quotes

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.

I've played in some pretty weird settings; busking puts you in all kinds of situations. I can tell you the most depressing gig I've played was in the North of England. At that time, I was playing with a band. We drove 7 or 8 hours to Carlisle to play a 600 - 700 capacity venue - 9 people showed up.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.

When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'

Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don't feel that anything you do makes any difference. They're just kicking a ball against a wall, so to speak.

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.