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"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."
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Harvey Fierstein
"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."
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"You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is."
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Ben Stein
"You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is."
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"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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Richard Grimes
"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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"You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?"
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Chris Tucker
"You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?"
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"It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love."
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Joe Pantoliano
"It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love."
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"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through."
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Randy Harrison
"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through."
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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
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Peter Davison
"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
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"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
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Theodore Bikel
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
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"What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?"
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Peter Berg
"What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?"
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"There are people who said he killed over a hundred men. Historical fact doesn't corroborate one hundred men."
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Keith Carradine
"There are people who said he killed over a hundred men. Historical fact doesn't corroborate one hundred men."
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"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
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Kenneth Branagh
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
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"I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept."
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Greg Kinnear
"I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept."
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"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."
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River Phoenix
"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."
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"I'm interested in villainy."
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Jonathan Frid
"I'm interested in villainy."
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"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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Bruce Lee
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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"I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there."
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Michael Zaslow
"I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there."
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"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out."
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Thomas Haden Church
"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out."
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"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."
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John Malkovich
"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."
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"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"
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Michael Douglas
"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"
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"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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Tom Berenger
"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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"My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing."
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Adam Sandler
"My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing."
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"I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me."
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Bradley Cooper
"I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me."
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"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."
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Geoffrey Rush
"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."
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"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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Jack Nicholson
"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."
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Tommy Rettig
"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."
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"These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run."
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Frankie Avalon
"These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run."
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"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered."
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John Lithgow
"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered."
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"Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get."
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Matthew McGrory
"Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get."
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"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
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Robert Morley
"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
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"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on."
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George Clooney
"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on."
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"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
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Keanu Reeves
"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
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"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done."
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Mark Harmon
"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done."
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"If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV."
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Val Kilmer
"If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV."
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"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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Kieran Culkin
"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."
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Christopher Atkins
"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."
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"I look upon pride as a sin."
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Tommy Lee Jones
"I look upon pride as a sin."
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"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted."
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David Friedman
"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted."
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"It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever."
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Ron Silver
"It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever."
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"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to."
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Rob Morrow
"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to."
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"It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself."
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Andrew Shue
"It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself."
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"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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Tom Berenger
"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives."
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Scott Speedman
"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives."
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"I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else."
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James Stewart
"I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else."
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"I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic."
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Rupert Grint
"I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic."
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"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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Bill Scott
"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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"I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period."
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Peter Boyle
"I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period."
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"I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work."
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Bruce Willis
"I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work."
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"There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed."
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Rick Schroder
"There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed."
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"New York is tough on lonely people."
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Michael Bergin
"New York is tough on lonely people."
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"I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans."
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Wentworth Miller
"I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans."
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