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"Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out."
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Robert Stack
"Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out."
End,
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"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
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"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."
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Carroll O'Connor
"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."
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"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."
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Harrison Ford
"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."
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"In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees."
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Casper Van Dien
"In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees."
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"It was a boy's name first."
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Leslie Nielsen
"It was a boy's name first."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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Harrison Ford
"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs."
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Sean Connery
"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs."
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"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."
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Nick Mancuso
"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."
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"A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys."
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Val Kilmer
"A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys."
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"I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game."
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George Eads
"I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game."
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"I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this."
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Joe Pantoliano
"I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this."
Now,
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"I think making a good film shot is joyful."
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William Shatner
"I think making a good film shot is joyful."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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Michael J. Fox
"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch."
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Jason Bateman
"Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch."
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"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
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Frank Langella
"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
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"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was."
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Rod Steiger
"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was."
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"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."
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Christian Bale
"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."
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"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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Ben Kingsley
"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
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Colin Firth
"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
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"Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar."
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Channing Pollock
"Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar."
Man,
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"The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me."
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Ryan Phillippe
"The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me."
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"People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy."
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James Lafferty
"People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy."
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"I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people."
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Rupert Everett
"I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people."
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"I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right."
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Andrew McCarthy
"I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right."
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"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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Tim Robbins
"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
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Ben Kingsley
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
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"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
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Ryan Phillippe
"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
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"My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult."
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Jason Biggs
"My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult."
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"Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something."
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Josh Duhamel
"Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something."
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"I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit."
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Victor Garber
"I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit."
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"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
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Stanley Tucci
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
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"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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Sidney Poitier
"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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"I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet."
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Edward James Olmos
"I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet."
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"I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all."
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Greg Kinnear
"I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all."
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"I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites."
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Kurt Russell
"I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites."
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"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere."
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John Barrymore
"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere."
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"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
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Alec Baldwin
"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
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"I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions."
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Jeremy Northam
"I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions."
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"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
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Colin Firth
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
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"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity."
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Geoffrey Rush
"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity."
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"I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on."
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Brad Pitt
"I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on."
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"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."
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Gregory Hines
"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."
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"I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make."
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Javier Bardem
"I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make."
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"I have a lot of faith in people."
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John Lithgow
"I have a lot of faith in people."
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"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
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"Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation."
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Warren Beatty
"Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation."
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"Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody."
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Adam Rich
"Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody."
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"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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Matthew Modine
"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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"You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it."
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Edward James Olmos
"You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it."
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