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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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"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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"It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love."
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Olivier Martinez
"It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love."
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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."
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Harrison Ford
"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."
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"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly."
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Wentworth Miller
"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly."
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"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art."
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Javier Bardem
"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art."
Art,
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"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
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Martin Milner
"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
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"When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you."
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Morris Chestnut
"When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you."
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"I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately."
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Casper Van Dien
"I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately."
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"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known."
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Richard Briers
"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known."
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"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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Christian Slater
"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
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Richard Attenborough
"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."
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Ralph Fiennes
"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."
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"I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever."
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Ethan Hawke
"I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever."
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"I come from a traditional theater background."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I come from a traditional theater background."
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"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."
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"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."
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Richard O'Brien
"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."
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"Big feature films are another world."
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Jerry Orbach
"Big feature films are another world."
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"After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again."
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Mark Ruffalo
"After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again."
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"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."
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Christian Bale
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."
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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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Barry Bostwick
"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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"Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon."
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Richard O'Brien
"Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon."
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"If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice."
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Michael Zaslow
"If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice."
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"It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box."
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Christopher Meloni
"It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box."
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"I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek."
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Max von Sydow
"I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek."
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"I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing."
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Matthew McGrory
"I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing."
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"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."
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Shane West
"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."
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"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."
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Rod Steiger
"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."
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"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."
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David Ogden Stiers
"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."
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"And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development."
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Will Arnett
"And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development."
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"I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies."
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Christopher Meloni
"I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies."
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"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
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Ron Perlman
"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
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"We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching."
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Lloyd Bridges
"We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching."
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"I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup."
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Jeremy London
"I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup."
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"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business."
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Rene Auberjonois
"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business."
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"The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you."
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Aries Spears
"The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you."
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"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
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Jack Bowman
"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
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"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."
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Wilford Brimley
"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."
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"Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful."
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Robert Patrick
"Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful."
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"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball."
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Kurt Russell
"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball."
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"The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out."
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"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for."
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"I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that."
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Adam Rickitt
"I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that."
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"In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along."
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Fred Ward
"In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along."
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"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
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Jack Nicholson
"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
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"I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know."
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Brandon Routh
"I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know."
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"It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community."
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Dwight Schultz
"It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community."
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"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
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Will Rogers
"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
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