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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
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"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."
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"I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them."
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"The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy."
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"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."
Business
"It's much easier to work with an unknown."
Work
"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."
Time
"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."
Music
"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
People
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
Performance
"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."
Business
"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
Life
"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."
Music
"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
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