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"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."
"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"
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