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"I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."

"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."

"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."

"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."

"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance."
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"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names."

"I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble."

"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."

"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."

"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."

"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."

"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."
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