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"Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral."
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"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
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"I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."
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"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
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"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
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"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."
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"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
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"I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself."
God
"When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there.""
Failure
"It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian."
Pressure
"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
Business
"Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus."
Time
"I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that."
Work
"Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral."
Performance
"The work is getting the work."
Work
"When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94."
Family
"I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen."
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