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"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."

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

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."

"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."

"You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside."

"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."

"My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me."
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"I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate."

"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that."

"It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me."

"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."

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