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Ed O'Neill

"I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."

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"I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."

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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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A.E. Samaan

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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A.E. Samaan

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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A.E. Samaan

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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A.E. Samaan

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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A.E. Samaan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Ed O'Neill
"I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones."

Friendship

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Ed O'Neill
"I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess."

Woman

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Ed O'Neill
"Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined."

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Ed O'Neill
"When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?"

Home

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Ed O'Neill
"I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw."

Peace

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Ed O'Neill
"I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."

Movies

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Ed O'Neill
"Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money."

Money

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Ed O'Neill
"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"

Mom

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Ed O'Neill
"All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part."

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Ed O'Neill
"I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school."

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