I've asked Comedy Central, and they just say, "I don't know." It took Showtime two years to put my special on DVD. Owning your own content is the single most important thing in the world.
I'm going to eventually shoot my own special, because you have to own your own content. My Turn (2003), that's never been released on DVD.
As far as in my career, I don't know what other form there is. I would love to do a talk show.
I created a human being from paper and I put it on the screen, a unique individual. I wish every performance, every IMDB credit, I would do it over, because I would do it better, because I would do it less. If that makes any sense.
We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?" Sorry, bro...Maybe I should've done an hour and 34 minutes.
There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the ones that really nobody saw. The Groomsmen, Playing By Heart and Seeing Other People are by far the work I'm the most proud of.
When you do an hour and a half and you destroy, like tonight was great. I had an awesome time. I realized that I'd been up there for about an hour and a half and I realized, "Wow, I'm gonna get out of here without doing Walken." It is a bit of a moral victory.
If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.
I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.
It doesn't hurt my voice or anything because some impressions tear my throat apart. [Christophen] Walken is easy; I can do it in my sleep. They all know it by heart. I did it on The Simpsons. I'm surprised that people still want to hear it.
'Christopher Walken' is my "Hotel California," but I've done it so much
There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now I can't wait to get back out there because I'm better than ever."
I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.
[Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..."
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.
I think stand-up's, the older they get, the better they get.
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.
I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.
I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.
When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.
I don't have a nine-to-five brain.
I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.
The anxiety is, "Are they going to come?" and when you get there and it's full you say, "I'm good. I can stop freaking out." But when it's four days out and they're scrambling to find more radio shows and Good Morning Phoenix and all these weird shows, then that gets very tiring.
I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.
This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.
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