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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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Brennan Manning

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

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Brennan Manning

"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

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Brennan Manning

"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

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Brennan Manning

"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

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Brennan Manning

"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

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Brennan Manning

"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."

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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."

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Brennan Manning

"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

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Brennan Manning

"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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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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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."

Flying

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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."

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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
"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
"I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again."

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