My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.
I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.
Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
