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"The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it."
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Bob Saget
"The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it."
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"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."
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Jensen Ackles
"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."
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"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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Jai Rodriguez
"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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"I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life."
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Artie Lange
"I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life."
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"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."
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Gavin MacLeod
"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."
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"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."
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Jackie Chan
"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."
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"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
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Richard McCabe
"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
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"I'm a very religious person."
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Chuck Norris
"I'm a very religious person."
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"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons."
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Michael Caine
"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons."
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"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
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Ben Kingsley
"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
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"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
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Randy Harrison
"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
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"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
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Ken Curtis
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
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"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
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Harry Dean Stanton
"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
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"It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny."
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David Cross
"It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny."
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"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
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Ivan Reitman
"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
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"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."
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Brendan Fraser
"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."
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"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry."
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Alan Ladd
"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry."
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"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great."
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Scott Wolf
"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great."
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"I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from."
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John Cleese
"I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from."
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"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."
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George Eads
"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."
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"I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything."
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Sessue Hayakawa
"I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything."
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"I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters."
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Thomas Lennon
"I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters."
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"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."
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Derek Luke
"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."
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"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."
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Jeffrey Wright
"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."
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"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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Bill Murray
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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"The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it."
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Eric Braeden
"The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it."
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"Change is good. And in fact unavoidable."
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Dirk Benedict
"Change is good. And in fact unavoidable."
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"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."
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Paul Robeson
"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."
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"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid."
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Sheryl Lee
"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid."
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"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
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Sean Bean
"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
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"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."
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Robert Pattinson
"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."
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"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
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William H. Macy
"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
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"But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am."
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Joe Mantegna
"But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am."
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"Funny is when you're serious."
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Harvey Korman
"Funny is when you're serious."
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"My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it."
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James Denton
"My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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Paul Scofield
"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
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Gary Cole
"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
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"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."
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Maximilian Schell
"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."
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"America can't beat anyone anymore."
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George Clooney
"America can't beat anyone anymore."
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"I made the character as much of myself as I could."
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Gil Gerard
"I made the character as much of myself as I could."
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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."
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Erich von Stroheim
"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."
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"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity."
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Mark Ruffalo
"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity."
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"The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served."
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Tony Curtis
"The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served."
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"I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."
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Keith Carradine
"I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."
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"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket."
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Will Rogers
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket."
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"Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that."
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Frank Morgan
"Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that."
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"Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him."
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John Ritter
"Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him."
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"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."
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John Malkovich
"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."
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"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
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Nick Mancuso
"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
Act,
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