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Quotes by Actor

"I need freedom to be happy."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"I need freedom to be happy."
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"I don't like to play the victim."
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Barry Pepper
"I don't like to play the victim."
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"The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%."
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Taylor Lautner
"The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%."
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"The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it."
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Campbell Scott
"The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it."
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"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."
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Joe Mantegna
"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."
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"The most important thing in my life is my work."
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Rod Taylor
"The most important thing in my life is my work."
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"However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine."
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Richard O'Brien
"However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine."
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"And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night."
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Fisher Stevens
"And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night."
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"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
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Anthony Quinn
"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
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"I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about."
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Omar Sharif
"I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about."
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"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
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Jason Patric
"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
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"I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year."
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Michael Gambon
"I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year."
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"The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it."
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Alfred Molina
"The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it."
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"President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat."
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Kevin Costner
"President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat."
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"If I have enough money to eat I'm good."
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Shia LaBeouf
"If I have enough money to eat I'm good."
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"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."
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River Phoenix
"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."
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"I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration."
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Victor Garber
"I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration."
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"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
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Warren Mitchell
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
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"I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!"
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Harvey Fierstein
"I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!"
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"Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here."
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Cesar Romero
"Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here."
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"They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role."
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Harvey Keitel
"They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role."
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"In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve."
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Dougray Scott
"In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve."
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"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."
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Shemar Moore
"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."
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"People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species."
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Dwight Schultz
"People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species."
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"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
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Dougray Scott
"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
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"While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic."
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Robert Vaughn
"While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic."
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"I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work."
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Dick York
"I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work."
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"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
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Steve Guttenberg
"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
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"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."
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Jason Mewes
"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."
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"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
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Richard Attenborough
"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
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"So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity."
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Charlie Hunnam
"So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity."
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"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."
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Dan Castellaneta
"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."
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"A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time."
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Jeffrey Jones
"A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time."
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"By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly."
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Michael Shanks
"By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly."
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"One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic."
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Jonathan Brandis
"One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic."
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
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Orson Welles
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
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"If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling."
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Alan Thicke
"If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling."
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"I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active."
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Harvey Fierstein
"I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active."
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"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it."
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Ivan Reitman
"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it."
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"It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong."
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Bill Scott
"It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong."
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"I always approach film as a fan."
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Michael Fassbender
"I always approach film as a fan."
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"I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary."
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Jeremy Northam
"I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary."
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"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre."
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Christopher Eccleston
"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre."
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"I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend."
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Josh Duhamel
"I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend."
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"But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies."
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Jason Biggs
"But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies."
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"I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles."
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Donald Wolfit
"I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles."
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"Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"
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Curly Howard
"Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"
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"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."
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John Ratzenberger
"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."
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"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."
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Kevin Costner
"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."
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"It's an important fact of life, war."
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Jeff Goldblum
"It's an important fact of life, war."
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