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Quotes by Actor

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care.""
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James Caan
"My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care.""
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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
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Terence Stamp
"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
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"Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years."
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Michael Landon
"Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years."
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"Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!"
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Tom Baker
"Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!"
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
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Ben Kingsley
"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
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"I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain."
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Gregory Peck
"I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain."
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"I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music."
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Stephen Dorff
"I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music."
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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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Carl Reiner
"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."
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Eric Roberts
"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."
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"It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks."
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Peter Fonda
"It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks."
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"I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that."
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Jeffrey Donovan
"I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that."
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"Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back."
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Richard O'Brien
"Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back."
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"The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date."
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Sean Hayes
"The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date."
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"I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like."
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Michael Michele
"I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like."
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"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."
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Broderick Crawford
"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."
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"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier."
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Nicholas Lea
"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier."
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"I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death."
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Casey Affleck
"I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death."
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"It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive."
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Christopher Meloni
"It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive."
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"To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting."
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Ian McDiarmid
"To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting."
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"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
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John Lone
"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
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"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."
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David Ogden Stiers
"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."
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"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
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Daniel Day Lewis
"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
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"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."
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Leslie Nielsen
"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."
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"When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years."
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Joe Pantoliano
"When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years."
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"I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible."
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Paul M. Glaser
"I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible."
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"And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future."
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Jonathan Brandis
"And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future."
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"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
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Ben Affleck
"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
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"I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things."
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Ben Kingsley
"I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things."
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"If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me."
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Ryan Stiles
"If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me."
Man,
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"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."
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Desi Arnaz
"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."
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"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
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James Daly
"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
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"It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach."
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Robert Stack
"It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach."
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"War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong."
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Martin Sheen
"War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong."
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"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."
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Jeremy London
"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."
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"I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me."
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James Denton
"I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me."
Men,
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"I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results."
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"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."
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Danny DeVito
"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."
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"This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable."
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Fred Astaire
"This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable."
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"A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character."
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Shawn Wayans
"A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character."
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"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."
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Jeremy London
"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."
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"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
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Steve Buscemi
"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
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"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"
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Rod Steiger
"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"
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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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Jason Patric
"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
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Bud Abbott
"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
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"The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well."
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Dan Castellaneta
"The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well."
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"I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'"
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Zac Efron
"I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'"
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"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
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Bela Lugosi
"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
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"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."
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James D'arcy
"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."
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"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."
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Albert Brooks
"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."
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"No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not."
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M. Emmet Walsh
"No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not."
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