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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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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 think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
Performance
"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
Voice
"You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are."
Time
"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
Comedy
"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
Love
"People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do."
People
"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
Work
"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
Love
"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
People
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