Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
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I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.
I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.
When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.
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