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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."
"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
"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."
"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile 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."
"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."
"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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"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."
"We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby."
"I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna."
"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist."
"Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that."
"I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money."
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