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"I love being verbal in films."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I love being verbal in films."
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"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other."
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Jet Li
"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other."
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"The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie."
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Kevin Bacon
"The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie."
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"I am not gay, I just like pearls."
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Julian Eltinge
"I am not gay, I just like pearls."
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"So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work."
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Joseph Bologna
"So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work."
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"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."
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Thomas Jane
"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."
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"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all."
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Joe Lando
"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all."
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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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Tim Robbins
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
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David Strathairn
"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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Michael Fassbender
"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
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Scott Speedman
"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
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"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group."
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Shane West
"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group."
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"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite."
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Brent Spiner
"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite."
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"I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours."
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Sanjay Dutt
"I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours."
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"I have considered myself a mature actor."
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DeForest Kelley
"I have considered myself a mature actor."
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"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
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Hugh Grant
"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
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"Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came."
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Ian McKellen
"Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came."
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"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
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Alan Ladd
"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
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"My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave."
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Mark Ruffalo
"My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave."
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"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
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Fred Astaire
"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
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"I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself."
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Michael Richards
"I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself."
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"I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me."
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Kevin Spacey
"I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me."
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"You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world."
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Ben Affleck
"You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world."
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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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Charles Bronson
"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character."
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Randy Harrison
"When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character."
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"My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal."
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Edward G. Robinson
"My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal."
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"And I love writing. I've always loved writing."
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James Daly
"And I love writing. I've always loved writing."
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"It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media."
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Shahrukh Khan
"It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media."
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"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."
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Michael J. Fox
"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
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Tom Cruise
"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
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"The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life."
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Christopher Meloni
"The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life."
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"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."
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John Malkovich
"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."
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"Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad."
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Lalla Ward
"Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad."
Fun,
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"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
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Bob Geldof
"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
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"The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match."
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John Forsythe
"The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match."
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"What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages."
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Paul Scofield
"What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages."
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"People work harder when conditions are worse."
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Jeff Goldblum
"People work harder when conditions are worse."
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"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek."
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Patrick Stewart
"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek."
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"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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Patrick Macnee
"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
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Harry Shearer
"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
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"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."
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David Friedman
"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."
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"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."
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Richard Pryor
"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."
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"You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?"
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Tommy Chong
"You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?"
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"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."
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Spalding Gray
"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."
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"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."
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Kurt Russell
"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."
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"Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises."
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Colin Mochrie
"Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises."
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"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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Cyril Cusack
"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."
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Jeremy Irons
"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."
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"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
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John Malkovich
"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
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