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"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
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Sean Connery
"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
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"I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head."
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Devon Werkheiser
"I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head."
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"Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them."
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Victor Garber
"Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them."
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"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."
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Wentworth Miller
"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."
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"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."
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Max Beerbohm
"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."
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"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy."
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John Cleese
"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy."
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"By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do."
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David Morse
"By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do."
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"Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle."
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Dennis Franz
"Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle."
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"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."
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John Turturro
"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."
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"It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour."
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Xander Berkeley
"It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour."
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"I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time."
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Ed Harris
"I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time."
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"Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality."
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"When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth."
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Tom Wopat
"When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth."
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"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"
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David Spade
"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"
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"With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture."
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Tony Shalhoub
"With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture."
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"I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe."
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Al Lewis
"I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe."
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"I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing."
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Patrick Warburton
"I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing."
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"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."
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Robert De Niro
"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."
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"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him."
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Shia LaBeouf
"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him."
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"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."
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Thomas Lennon
"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."
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"I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky."
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Ian Hart
"I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky."
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"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."
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Alan Thicke
"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."
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"Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again."
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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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Skeet Ulrich
"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip."
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John Cleese
"The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip."
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"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
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Bud Abbott
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
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"The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then."
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Denzel Washington
"The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then."
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"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable."
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Pat Morita
"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable."
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"It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people."
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Mark Harmon
"It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people."
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"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."
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Robert Towne
"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."
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"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."
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Dick Van Dyke
"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."
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"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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Thomas Lennon
"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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"I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way."
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Josh Lucas
"I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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Christopher Atkins
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church."
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Peter Jurasik
"I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church."
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"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean."
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James Franco
"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean."
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"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."
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"I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything."
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Gary Coleman
"I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything."
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"All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself."
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Brian Austin Green
"All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself."
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"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged."
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Martin Sheen
"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged."
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"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle."
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Boris Kodjoe
"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle."
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"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk."
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Anthony Quinn
"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk."
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"I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home."
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Dennis Farina
"I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home."
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"We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view."
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Gavin MacLeod
"We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view."
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"For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors."
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Lloyd Bridges
"For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors."
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"I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police."
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Robert Stack
"I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police."
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"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."
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Dan Castellaneta
"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."
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"I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role."
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Ethan Suplee
"I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role."
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"I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility."
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Don Johnson
"I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility."
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"It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult."
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Wentworth Miller
"It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult."
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