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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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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 say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
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"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."
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"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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"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
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"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
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"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
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"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."
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"I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film."
Film
"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."
Work
"I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50."
Love
"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."
Want
"I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though."
People
"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."
Power
"I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music."
Music
"I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through."
Movies
"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."
Actor
"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
Movies
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