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Quotes by Actor

"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."
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William H. Macy
"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."
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"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
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Leon Askin
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
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"I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson."
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Dustin Diamond
"I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson."
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"I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch."
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John Malkovich
"I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch."
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"I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface."
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Christian Slater
"I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface."
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"If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly."
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Victor Garber
"If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly."
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"Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes."
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Jeff Goldblum
"Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes."
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"I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way."
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Robert Redford
"I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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David Morse
"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out."
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William Hurt
"I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out."
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"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
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Austin Peck
"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
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"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."
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Kevin Bacon
"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."
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"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories."
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Dustin Hoffman
"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories."
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"I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine."
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"It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on."
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Peter Fonda
"It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on."
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"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
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Colin Firth
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
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"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
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Sean Connery
"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
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"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."
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Rod Taylor
"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."
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"I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school."
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Jonathan Brandis
"I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school."
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"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there."
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William Jackson
"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there."
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"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."
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Peter Sarsgaard
"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."
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"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
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Marlon Brando
"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
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"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."
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Denzel Washington
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."
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"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor."
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David Carradine
"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor."
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"I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with."
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Corey Haim
"I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with."
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"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
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William Powell
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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Peter Davison
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
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James Earl Jones
"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."
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"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
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David Hyde Pierce
"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
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"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."
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Paul Mazursky
"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."
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"I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'."
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Orlando Bloom
"I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'."
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"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."
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Shia LaBeouf
"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."
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"Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed."
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Lucas Grabeel
"Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed."
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"Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace."
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Paul Robeson
"Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace."
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"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
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Theodore Bikel
"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
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"I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie."
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Bill Paxton
"I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie."
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"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan."
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Jeffrey Wright
"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan."
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"Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now."
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Peter Gallagher
"Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now."
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"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality."
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Peter Fonda
"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality."
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"I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned."
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Robert Vaughn
"I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned."
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"For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."
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Charlie Sheen
"For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."
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"All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done."
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Mickey Rourke
"All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done."
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"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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Matthew Modine
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move."
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Ossie Davis
"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move."
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"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
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Javier Bardem
"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
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"The biggest problems with movies are expectations."
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Frank Oz
"The biggest problems with movies are expectations."
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"I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?"
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Tobey Maguire
"I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?"
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"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition."
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Jay Hernandez
"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition."
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"I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now."
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Ryan Reynolds
"I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now."
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