Quotes on the topic: Gig


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The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.


At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.


I can do a gig without an instrument.


For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.


When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.


I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.


Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.


For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.


I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.


I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.


When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.


Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.


I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.


Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.


I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.


You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.


I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.


It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.


I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.


Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.