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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."

"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."

"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."

"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."

"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."

"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."

"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
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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."

"My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer."

"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."

"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."

"I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out."

"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."
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