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"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent."
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Bill Scott
"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent."
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"Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to."
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Shemar Moore
"Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to."
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"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."
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Brion James
"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."
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"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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David Ogden Stiers
"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them."
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Peter Sarsgaard
"I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them."
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"Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it."
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Anthony Anderson
"Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it."
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"As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time."
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"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun."
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Tim Robbins
"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun."
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"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."
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Kevin Costner
"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."
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"I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers."
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Steve Kanaly
"I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers."
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"I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again."
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Kevin Costner
"I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again."
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"Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions."
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Leonard Nimoy
"Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions."
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"Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I."
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Paul Guilfoyle
"Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I."
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"I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing."
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Peter Fonda
"I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing."
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"I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches."
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Tim Robbins
"I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches."
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"I had to study acting to basically educate myself."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I had to study acting to basically educate myself."
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"Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no."
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Jason Schwartzman
"Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no."
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"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out."
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David Prowse
"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out."
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"Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing."
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Bruce Dern
"Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing."
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"We all need a firm sense of identity."
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Christopher Eccleston
"We all need a firm sense of identity."
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"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."
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Carl Reiner
"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."
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"Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself."
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Lawrence Tierney
"Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself."
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"The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices."
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Fred Savage
"The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices."
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"I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions."
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Channing Tatum
"I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions."
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"I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality."
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Erich von Stroheim
"I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality."
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"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
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Viggo Mortensen
"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
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"You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is."
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Martin Mull
"You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is."
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"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
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Gary Cole
"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
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"And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now."
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Peter Krause
"And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now."
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"I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually."
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Tom Selleck
"I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually."
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"I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead."
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Jeremy Renner
"I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead."
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"I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else."
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Javier Bardem
"I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else."
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"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."
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Andrew Shue
"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."
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"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."
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James Earl Jones
"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."
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"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."
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Dougray Scott
"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."
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"People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them."
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Wayne Rogers
"People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them."
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"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
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Derek Jacobi
"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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Aidan Quinn
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."
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Tim Robbins
"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."
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"My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses."
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Christopher Parker
"My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses."
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"I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful."
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Christopher Lee
"I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful."
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"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."
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Carl Reiner
"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."
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"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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Cyril Cusack
"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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Orson Welles
"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
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Marton Csokas
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
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"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis."
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William Jackson
"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis."
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"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint."
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Rod Taylor
"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint."
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"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
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Charlie Chaplin
"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
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"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."
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Tom Cruise
"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."
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"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."
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Jeremy London
"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."
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