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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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"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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"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."

"I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me."

"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."

"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. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."

"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"

"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."

"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong."

"I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy."
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