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Quotes by Actor

"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."
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Ray Bolger
"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."
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"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."
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Andrew Shue
"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."
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"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."
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Dennis Farina
"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."
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"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."
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William Hurt
"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."
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"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
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Colin Firth
"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
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"At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood."
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Samuel West
"At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood."
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"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane."
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Tommy Chong
"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane."
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"I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction."
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Donald Pleasence
"I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction."
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"Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!"
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Ben Affleck
"Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!"
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"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."
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John Wayne
"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."
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"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."
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"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."
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"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."
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Peter O'Toole
"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."
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"I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me."
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Mark Roberts
"I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me."
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"Don't just view me as an actor."
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Terrence Howard
"Don't just view me as an actor."
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"I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment."
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Leonard Nimoy
"I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment."
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace."
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John Russell
"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace."
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"I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval."
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William Shatner
"I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval."
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"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will."
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Josh Hartnett
"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will."
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"I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went."
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David Naughton
"I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went."
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"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it."
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Sean Penn
"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it."
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"I would never have discovered alcohol."
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David Strickland
"I would never have discovered alcohol."
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"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."
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Tim Robbins
"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."
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"I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman."
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Shawn Ashmore
"I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman."
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"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond."
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"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."
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Richard O'Brien
"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."
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"If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains."
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Ron Silver
"If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains."
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"I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun."
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James MacArthur
"I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun."
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"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
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Bruce Lee
"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
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"The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family."
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Mark Goddard
"The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family."
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"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."
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Thomas Lennon
"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."
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"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."
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Maurice Chevalier
"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."
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"The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable."
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Mark Roberts
"The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable."
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"My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day."
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Robert Wagner
"My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day."
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"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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Thayer David
"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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"It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture."
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Herbert Lom
"It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture."
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"I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family."
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Mark Hamill
"I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family."
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"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"
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Ron Livingston
"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"
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"I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much."
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Jimmy Smits
"I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much."
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"When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring."
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"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns."
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Robert Duvall
"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns."
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"We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience."
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Shawn Wayans
"We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience."
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"My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy."
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Lee Majors
"My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy."
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"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."
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Henry Fonda
"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."
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"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
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Will Smith
"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
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"I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing."
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Christopher Meloni
"I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing."
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"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."
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Brendan Fraser
"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."
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"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."
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Brendan Fraser
"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."
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"At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space."
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Cillian Murphy
"At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space."
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"Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it."
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David Prowse
"Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it."
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"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
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Ian Hart
"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
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