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"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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"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."
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"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."
"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"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."
"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."
"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."
"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."
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