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"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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Matt LeBlanc
"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
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Ken Curtis
"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
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"I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility."
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"Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them."
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Gary Sinise
"Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them."
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"I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave."
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Richard Gere
"I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave."
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"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."
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Alex Winter
"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."
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"I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life."
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"If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat."
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Robert Morley
"If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat."
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"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people."
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Tom Baker
"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people."
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"But words - words are not enough!"
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Klaus Kinski
"But words - words are not enough!"
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"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."
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Bruce Davison
"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."
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"It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character."
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Dan Castellaneta
"It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character."
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"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."
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Jeremy Piven
"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."
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"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."
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"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."
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David Friedman
"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."
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"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."
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Timothy West
"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."
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"We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment."
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Willie Aames
"We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment."
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"There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress."
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Tom Berenger
"There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress."
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"Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it."
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Bill Mumy
"Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it."
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"When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them."
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Brendan Fraser
"When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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Hugh Grant
"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation."
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Matt Lucas
"I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation."
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"I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy."
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Dirk Benedict
"I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy."
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"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."
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Paul Robeson
"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."
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"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."
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George Clooney
"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."
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"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."
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Bruce Davison
"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."
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"Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke."
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John Krasinski
"Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke."
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"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."
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Andy Garcia
"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."
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"I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence."
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Andrew Shue
"I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence."
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"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."
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Ben Kingsley
"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."
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"I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help."
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Michael McKean
"I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help."
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"Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace."
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Brendan Fraser
"Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace."
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"I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?"
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Tom Sizemore
"I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?"
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"When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically."
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Ajay Naidu
"When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically."
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"There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that."
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Alan Thicke
"There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that."
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"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."
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Donald Pleasence
"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."
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"As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold."
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John C. McGinley
"As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold."
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"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
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Alan Thicke
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
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"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."
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Tony Curtis
"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."
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"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."
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Thomas Lennon
"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."
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"I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better."
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Dennis Quaid
"I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better."
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"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."
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Donald Pleasence
"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."
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"My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them."
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Harrison Ford
"My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them."
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"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
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Bela Lugosi
"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
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"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."
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William Shatner
"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."
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"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."
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Jackie Cooper
"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."
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"I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now."
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Brian Austin Green
"I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now."
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"I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid."
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Gary Sinise
"I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid."
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"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
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Ralph Fiennes
"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
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"I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw."
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Joe Pantoliano
"I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw."
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