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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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"I'm really a romantic at heart."
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Christopher Atkins
"I'm really a romantic at heart."
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"Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America."
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Jason Behr
"Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America."
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"I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer."
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Rick Schroder
"I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer."
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"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
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F. Murray Abraham
"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
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Michael Ironside
"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
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"It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house."
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River Phoenix
"It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house."
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"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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"I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving."
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Alain Delon
"I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving."
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"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
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Gregory Hines
"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
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"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
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James MacArthur
"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
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"History passes the final judgment."
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Sidney Poitier
"History passes the final judgment."
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"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""
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Christopher Meloni
"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""
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"In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor."
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Sean Penn
"In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor."
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"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."
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Ron Livingston
"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."
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"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
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"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."
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Ian McKellen
"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."
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"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."
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John Cusack
"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."
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"First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?"
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Harold Ramis
"First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?"
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"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
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Richard Widmark
"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
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"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
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Parker Stevenson
"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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Oskar Werner
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
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Alec Guinness
"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
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"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
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Kevin Costner
"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
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"You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors."
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Andrew Shue
"You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors."
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"After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked."
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Matthew Perry
"After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked."
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"The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate."
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Jeremy Brett
"The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate."
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"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well."
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Oliver Reed
"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well."
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"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
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Judd Nelson
"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
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"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."
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Adrian Edmondson
"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."
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"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."
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F. Murray Abraham
"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."
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"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."
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D. L. Hughley
"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."
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"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
Man,
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"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."
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F. Murray Abraham
"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."
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"I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley."
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Dick York
"I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley."
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"This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day."
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Danny Glover
"This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day."
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"It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something."
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Randy Harrison
"It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something."
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"I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood."
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Brendan Fraser
"I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood."
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"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
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Michael Gambon
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
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"We all deal with being unfairly judged."
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Vin Diesel
"We all deal with being unfairly judged."
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"But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun."
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Werner Klemperer
"But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun."
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"If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now."
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Kel Mitchell
"If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now."
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"I always pull over for people who need a push."
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Esai Morales
"I always pull over for people who need a push."
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"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
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Christopher Atkins
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
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