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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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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."
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"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."
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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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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 was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background 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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"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
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"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
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"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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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 think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood."
Money
"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
Performance
"Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic."
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"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 do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views."
Artist
"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
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