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"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."

"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."

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

"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."

"You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside."

"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."

"My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me."

"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."

"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more."

"The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success."

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

"In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy."
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