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"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
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Paul Mazursky
"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
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"I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable."
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Richard Gere
"I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable."
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"Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything."
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"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
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Lee Majors
"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
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"Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first."
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Mark Roberts
"Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first."
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"Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from."
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Beau Bridges
"Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from."
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"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."
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"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale."
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Peter Fonda
"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale."
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"Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too."
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"You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else."
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Stephen Collins
"You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else."
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"I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that."
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Kevin Costner
"I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that."
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"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."
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Bela Lugosi
"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."
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"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
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Donald Pleasence
"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
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"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all."
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Jeff Goldblum
"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all."
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"A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material."
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Mickey Rourke
"A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material."
Now,
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"Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo."
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"It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this."
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Brandon Routh
"It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this."
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"I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago."
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Kel Mitchell
"I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago."
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"I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years."
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Robbie Coltrane
"I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years."
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"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means."
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Adam Sandler
"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means."
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"God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost."
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Robert Duvall
"God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost."
God,
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"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong."
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Kiefer Sutherland
"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong."
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"If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful."
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Daniel Day Lewis
"If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful."
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"What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best."
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Javier Bardem
"What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best."
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"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too."
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Hugo Weaving
"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too."
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"I sang the songs in 'The Doors'."
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Val Kilmer
"I sang the songs in 'The Doors'."
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"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive."
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William Shatner
"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive."
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"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."
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Jeffrey Tambor
"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."
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"Freedom is such a gift."
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Ryan Gosling
"Freedom is such a gift."
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"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on."
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Christopher Atkins
"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on."
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"You can die of the cure before you die of the illness."
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Michael Landon
"You can die of the cure before you die of the illness."
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"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."
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Rainn Wilson
"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."
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"Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them."
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Phil Silvers
"Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them."
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"I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups."
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Richard O'Brien
"I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups."
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"Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light."
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Leonard Nimoy
"Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light."
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"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."
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Morris Chestnut
"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."
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"I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion."
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"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
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Stanley Tucci
"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
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"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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Morgan Freeman
"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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"I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day."
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Aaron Eckhart
"I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day."
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"We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch."
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Shawn Wayans
"We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch."
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"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle."
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Adam Sandler
"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle."
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"And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie."
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Sean William Scott
"And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie."
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"My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me."
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Giovanni Ribisi
"My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me."
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"No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was."
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Albert Finney
"No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was."
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"There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate."
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Wentworth Miller
"There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate."
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"Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go."
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Andy Garcia
"Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go."
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"The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five."
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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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"I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist."
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Gary Coleman
"I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist."
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