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"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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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most."

"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."

"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."

"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."

"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."

"So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see."

"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently."

"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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