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"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."

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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."

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"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."


"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools."


"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."


"Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975."


"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."


"My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl."
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