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"Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality."
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Derek Luke
"Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality."
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"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."
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Ted Danson
"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."
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"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."
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Tom Berenger
"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."
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"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit."
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Lisa Whelchel
"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit."
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"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."
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James Caan
"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."
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"I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all."
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Albert Finney
"I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all."
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"Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little."
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Richard Harris
"Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little."
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"We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us."
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Nick Nolte
"We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us."
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"Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career."
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Orlando Bloom
"Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career."
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"I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer."
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Jason Mewes
"I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer."
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"And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today."
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Mike Lookinland
"And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today."
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"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."
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Danny Glover
"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."
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"In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth."
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Campbell Scott
"In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth."
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"There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying."
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Robert Mitchum
"There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying."
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"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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Sam Waterston
"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
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Ray Liotta
"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
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"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."
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Ted Shackelford
"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."
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"Directors, like actors, get typecast."
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John Landis
"Directors, like actors, get typecast."
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"I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me."
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Morris Chestnut
"I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me."
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"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword."
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David Carradine
"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword."
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"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."
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Matthew Fox
"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."
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"That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject."
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Leonard Nimoy
"That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject."
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"I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear."
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Channing Tatum
"I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear."
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"I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever."
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Tom Felton
"I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever."
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"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."
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Samuel L. Jackson
"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."
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"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
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Jason Patric
"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
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"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."
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"Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far."
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Joe Morton
"Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far."
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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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Burt Lancaster
"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."
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John C. Reilly
"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."
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"I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life."
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Hector Elizondo
"I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life."
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"Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it."
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Sean William Scott
"Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it."
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"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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Gil Gerard
"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
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Bruce Lee
"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
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"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."
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Tom Cruise
"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."
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"I'm just looking to get through the day."
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Peter Falk
"I'm just looking to get through the day."
Day,
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"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
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Al Pacino
"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
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"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later."
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William Jackson
"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later."
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"I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world."
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Rick Yune
"I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world."
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"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."
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Michael C. Hall
"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."
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"So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine."
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James Marsters
"So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine."
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"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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Stanley Tucci
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake."
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Larry Hagman
"Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake."
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"I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise."
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Jason Biggs
"I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise."
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"I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me."
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Casey Affleck
"I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me."
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"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who."
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Lalla Ward
"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who."
Fun,
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."
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Treat Williams
"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."
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"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."
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James D'arcy
"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."
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"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing."
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Bob Geldof
"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing."
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