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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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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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"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
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"One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service."
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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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"At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to."
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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
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"Between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word."
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"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."
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"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
Time
"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting
"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."
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"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'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
"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."
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