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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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Ethan Suplee
"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies."
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Mel Gibson
"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies."
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"When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors."
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Kevin Costner
"When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors."
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"There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life."
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Sean Astin
"There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life."
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"Prim and proper white women, I like what I see."
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Guy Madison
"Prim and proper white women, I like what I see."
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"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."
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Dabney Coleman
"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."
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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."
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Jeremy Irons
"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."
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"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
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Andy Garcia
"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
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"When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company."
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Mark Harmon
"When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company."
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"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
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Danny Thomas
"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
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"I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries."
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Dominic Monaghan
"I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries."
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"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."
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Harrison Ford
"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."
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"The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny."
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Daniel Baldwin
"The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny."
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"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."
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Jeffrey Jones
"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."
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"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
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Richard Pryor
"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
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"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."
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Thomas Haden Church
"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."
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"For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning."
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Jack Klugman
"For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning."
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"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
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Will Arnett
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
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"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
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"As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering."
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Patrick Stewart
"As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering."
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"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
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Ed Harris
"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
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"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
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Chow Yun Fat
"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
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"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
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John C. Reilly
"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
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"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."
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James Cromwell
"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."
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"I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace."
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"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team."
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Shia LaBeouf
"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team."
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"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."
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Rod Taylor
"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."
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"My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character."
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Beau Bridges
"My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character."
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"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
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Bela Lugosi
"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
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"If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area."
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Jason Segel
"If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area."
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"I'm a big believer in therapy. I'm in therapy in real life. I think anytime you can bitch and moan about your own life to someone who really doesn't care that much, and can give you an objective opinion about what you're going through, I think that's valuable."
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Eric Stoltz
"I'm a big believer in therapy. I'm in therapy in real life. I think anytime you can bitch and moan about your own life to someone who really doesn't care that much, and can give you an objective opinion about what you're going through, I think that's valuable."
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"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."
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David Duchovny
"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."
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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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Richard Pryor
"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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"By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long."
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Artie Lange
"By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long."
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"Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it."
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Thomas Jane
"Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it."
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"I've always loved writing."
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Casper Van Dien
"I've always loved writing."
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"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
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Colin Mochrie
"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
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"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds."
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Marc Wallice
"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds."
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"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due."
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Will Rogers
"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due."
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"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
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Andy Garcia
"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
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"And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self."
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Erich von Stroheim
"And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self."
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"Maria is the best reason to come home."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Maria is the best reason to come home."
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"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview."
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Jeremy Northam
"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview."
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"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
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David Prowse
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
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"I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat."
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Keith Carradine
"I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat."
Day,
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"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
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"I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was."
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Brandon Routh
"I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was."
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"And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy."
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Jack Nance
"And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy."
Now,
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"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
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Charlie Sheen
"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
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"My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor."
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Keith David
"My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor."
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