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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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"I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years."
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David Cross
"I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years."
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"It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters."
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Ivan Reitman
"It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters."
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"I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people."
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Steve Guttenberg
"I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people."
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"I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day."
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James McAvoy
"I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day."
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"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."
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"Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up."
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Judd Nelson
"Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up."
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"I think life's an irrational obsession."
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Sean Penn
"I think life's an irrational obsession."
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"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
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Jack Nicholson
"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
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"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."
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David Duchovny
"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."
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"Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair."
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Wentworth Miller
"Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair."
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"I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred."
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Frank Langella
"I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred."
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"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
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Bruce McCulloch
"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
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"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
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Alan Bates
"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
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"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."
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Andre Braugher
"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."
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"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."
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Liev Schreiber
"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."
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"A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter."
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Paul Scofield
"A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter."
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"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign."
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Chris Hemsworth
"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign."
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"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
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Curly Howard
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
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"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
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Jet Li
"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
Art,
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"You can be childlike without being childish."
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Christopher Meloni
"You can be childlike without being childish."
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"A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing."
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Ryan Phillippe
"A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing."
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"There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies."
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Pierce Brosnan
"There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies."
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"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball."
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Jeremy London
"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball."
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"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it."
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Brendan Fraser
"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it."
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"I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world."
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Michael C. Hall
"I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world."
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"Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with."
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Lance Loud
"Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with."
Men,
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"For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy."
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Dennis Franz
"For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy."
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"In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work."
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Steve Carell
"In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work."
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"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."
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Michael Richards
"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."
Act,
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"That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles."
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"I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up."
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Kevin Costner
"I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up."
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"It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say."
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Henry Fonda
"It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say."
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"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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David Friedman
"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love."
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Willie Aames
"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love."
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"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
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Max Beerbohm
"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
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"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation."
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Harvey Keitel
"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation."
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"I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it."
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Zach Braff
"I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it."
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"But my biggest passion is football."
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Greg Akcelrod
"But my biggest passion is football."
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"Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time."
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Robert Wagner
"Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time."
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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."
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Joe Lando
"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."
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"Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian."
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Kirk Cameron
"Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian."
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
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Orson Welles
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
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"I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy."
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"I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried."
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Matthew Ashford
"I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried."
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"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."
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Eli Wallach
"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."
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"I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win."
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Al Lewis
"I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win."
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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
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John Cleese
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
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"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."
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Ralph Fiennes
"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."
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