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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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"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
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Richard Burton
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
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"It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas."
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Larry David
"It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas."
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"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target."
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Jerry Doyle
"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target."
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"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
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Peter O'Toole
"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
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"I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now."
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Ned Beatty
"I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now."
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"I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it."
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Josh Hartnett
"I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it."
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"It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves."
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James Marsters
"It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves."
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"Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around."
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Austin Peck
"Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around."
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"They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page."
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James Denton
"They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page."
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"People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused."
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Russell Crowe
"People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused."
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"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."
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Cary Grant
"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."
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"I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower."
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Dustin Diamond
"I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower."
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"The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me."
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George Peppard
"The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me."
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"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."
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Stephen Chow
"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."
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"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it."
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David Carradine
"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it."
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"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
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Bud Abbott
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
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"But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too."
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Gavin MacLeod
"But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too."
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"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone."
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Harold Ramis
"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone."
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"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional."
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M. Emmet Walsh
"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional."
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"If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over."
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Liev Schreiber
"If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over."
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"My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?"
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Robert Vaughn
"My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?"
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"The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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Will Rogers
"The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."
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Jason Patric
"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."
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"I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered."
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Mark Goddard
"I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered."
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"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it."
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Denzel Washington
"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it."
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"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."
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Joshua Leonard
"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."
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"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."
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James Marsters
"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."
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"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
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Dick Van Dyke
"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
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"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."
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Michael Landon
"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."
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"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
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"The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor."
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Wayne Rogers
"The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor."
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"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."
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"You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that."
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Wayne Rogers
"You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that."
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"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
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Conrad Veidt
"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
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"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
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Bela Lugosi
"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
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"I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones."
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Xander Berkeley
"I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones."
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"To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked."
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Dirk Benedict
"To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked."
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"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult."
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Giovanni Ribisi
"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult."
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"I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again."
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Joe Pantoliano
"I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again."
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"I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no."
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Kel Mitchell
"I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no."
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"At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know."
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Shane West
"At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know."
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"I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet."
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Casper Van Dien
"I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet."
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"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
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Michael Patrick Jann
"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
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"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
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Jeremy Irons
"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
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"All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy."
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William Hurt
"All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy."
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"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love."
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Chris Burke
"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love."
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"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."
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Dennis Weaver
"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."
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"I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch."
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Jude Law
"I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch."
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"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
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Val Kilmer
"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
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