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"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"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."

"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."

"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."

"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
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"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."

"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."

"I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it."

"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
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