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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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"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually."
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James Lafferty
"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually."
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"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness."
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Alan Thicke
"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness."
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"I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best."
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Lucas Grabeel
"I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best."
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"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."
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Chuck Norris
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."
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"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."
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Alan Autry
"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."
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"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."
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Dennis Weaver
"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."
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"All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe."
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Joe Lando
"All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe."
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"You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week."
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David Hyde Pierce
"You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week."
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"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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Christopher Walken
"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."
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Ben Kingsley
"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."
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"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
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John Cleese
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
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Kevin Spacey
"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
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"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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Phil Hartman
"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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"I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning."
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Alex O'Loughlin
"I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning."
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"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
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Tom Baker
"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
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"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
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Ricardo Montalban
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
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"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."
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Bradley Whitford
"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."
Act,
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"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky."
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Derek Jacobi
"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky."
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"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know."
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Brendan Fraser
"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know."
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"I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing."
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Erich von Stroheim
"I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing."
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"We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny."
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Shawn Wayans
"We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny."
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"One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray."
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Christopher Atkins
"One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray."
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"There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun."
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James D'arcy
"There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun."
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"In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much."
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Chi McBride
"In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much."
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"You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything."
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John Malkovich
"You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything."
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"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all."
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Mandy Patinkin
"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all."
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"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."
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Rainn Wilson
"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."
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"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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Keith Carradine
"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."
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Mickey Rourke
"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."
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"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."
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Christopher Parker
"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."
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"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'."
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Mako
"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'."
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"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
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Robbie Coltrane
"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
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"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
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Sidney Poitier
"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
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"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."
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Tom Hanks
"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."
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"I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going."
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Gary Cole
"I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going."
Now,
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"This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America."
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Paul Robeson
"This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America."
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"We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that."
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Kurtwood Smith
"We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that."
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"Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them."
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Richard O'Brien
"Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them."
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"I love talking about Scientology."
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Giovanni Ribisi
"I love talking about Scientology."
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"I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard."
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Jeremy Renner
"I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard."
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"I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them."
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Shawn Ashmore
"I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them."
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"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
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"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
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Sam Waterston
"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
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"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."
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"I only really work when I want to."
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Ned Beatty
"I only really work when I want to."
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"No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later."
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Gil Gerard
"No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later."
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"First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations."
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Jim Coleman
"First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations."
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"I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy."
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Richard O'Brien
"I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy."
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