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Gene Siskel

"Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"

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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Donna Grant

"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."

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Gene Siskel
"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."

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Gene Siskel
"John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor."

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Gene Siskel
"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story."

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Gene Siskel
"The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago."

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Gene Siskel
"I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind."

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Gene Siskel
"In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made."

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Gene Siskel
"Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"

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Gene Siskel
"They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in."

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Gene Siskel
"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life."

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