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You’d be amazed at how many people want to work with you if you just ask, if you just make a call,” he continued. “You see a movie you like, hey, just call the guy up. Why not? I wasn’t always the call guy just ’cause I felt inferior. Paul Thomas Anderson’s not going to pick up my call. That’s what I’m thinking. Alexander Payne doesn’t want to speak to me. Noah Baumbach’s from Brooklyn, I’m from Brooklyn. Maybe there’s something there.” But picking up the phone didn’t come naturally. “It takes a minute to get over,” he said. “It’s not ego, it’s the opposite.

Chris Rock, NY Times

rock on broadway

Amazing to see someone so talented view himself so humbly….So I think I’m gonna ask Chris Rock to take me on tour with him and have this quote as a postscript to my request.  Ask and you shall receive.

electrichoney: (via parissenflamme) I guess this polaroid was a mistake? Whenever I open my mouth there’s always a lingering feeling in the back of my mind that I’ll make a mistake or misspeak while having a conversation.  This feeling is there all the time, especially with new people…no, sometimes with people I know well, too. All too often I surprise myself with how uncomfortable I can be around people that I should be comfortable with, regardless of age or gender.  Sometimes I think the longer I know people without ever getting to know them on a certain level the greater the degree of awkwardness will be if we’re ever left alone. Me: “Hi…” Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Hey…you.” Me: “You still working?” Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Yep, and you?” Me: “You betcha!” (Said in a voice that’s meant to be funny in a goofy way but it’s really not funny in any way.) Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Oh, that’s good.” (Silence) So I look at the above polaroid and think, Forget that inner guy whose afraid of awkwardness and just embrace looking like a fool.  It happens all the time anyway— you’re just usually oblivious to it. & I feel better. Of course many days I talk to whoever is around, don’t give a shit what happens and tell that little voice to kick rocks…but every now and then, that voice rears his head and I forget how to tell him to leave.

electrichoney:

(via parissenflamme)

I guess this polaroid was a mistake?

Whenever I open my mouth there’s always a lingering feeling in the back of my mind that I’ll make a mistake or misspeak while having a conversation.  This feeling is there all the time, especially with new people…no, sometimes with people I know well, too. All too often I surprise myself with how uncomfortable I can be around people that I should be comfortable with, regardless of age or gender.  Sometimes I think the longer I know people without ever getting to know them on a certain level the greater the degree of awkwardness will be if we’re ever left alone.

Me: “Hi…”

Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Hey…you.”

Me: “You still working?”

Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Yep, and you?”

Me: “You betcha!” (Said in a voice that’s meant to be funny in a goofy way but it’s really not funny in any way.)

Pseudo-friend since 8th grade: “Oh, that’s good.”

(Silence)

awkward moment

So I look at the above polaroid and think, Forget that inner guy whose afraid of awkwardness and just embrace looking like a fool.  It happens all the time anyway— you’re just usually oblivious to it.

& I feel better.

Of course many days I talk to whoever is around, don’t give a shit what happens and tell that little voice to kick rocks…but every now and then, that voice rears his head and I forget how to tell him to leave.

zealotry

…the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day.
Jerry Seinfeld via Software Developer/Blogger, Brad Isaac

Creative Inspiration: The Pulse That Beats Within Us All

solitair: danceintherain: (via mysilent-shouts)

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danceintherain:

(via mysilent-shouts)

owlcharm

"There was a period of time when I was doing a set a night at minimum, sometimes a couple shows a night, every night of the week so I’d work out a lot more stuff on its feet.... I almost feel weirder if I’m going into a set without doing anything new. It’s really satisfying when people connect with an opinion you’ve had for a very long time, and that you absolutely believe to be true, that seems very like, ‘Oh wow, people feel the same.’ That’s the special thing."

Comedian, John Mulaney, on his process for working out material.  I love comedy but when you go months on end performing almost every night it can wear.  Seeing others success keeps me going.

WATCH. A different take on what success is from one of the members of the Blue Man Group of all people, haha. Definitely inspired me…

alicewonder:

…am in midst of mid-twenties crisis two years early, so…this is for whoever else needs it. i did.

alicewonder

Let’s Get IT

Like T.I. says...

I just got really excited about an idea for a DVD after talking to my boy, Chris Nunn.  Let me just say it’s great to have positive, hungry people around you. It does wonders for keeping you motivated and working hard.  It’s gonna take me a while to put some material together though but I’mma work hard, push myself and see what I can come up with in the next couple months.  By God’s Grace this is gonna be wonderful.

Peace & God bless~