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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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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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"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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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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"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."
Life
"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."
Character
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."
Learning
"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
Mother
"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."
Act
"For me personally, everything is on a kiss."
Kiss
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."
Baby
"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
Performance
"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."
Experience
"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."
Money
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