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"I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge."
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Shawn Ashmore
"I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge."
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"I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work."
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Steve Burns
"I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work."
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"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."
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Shemar Moore
"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."
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"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."
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Verne Troyer
"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."
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"I kind of dwindled into acting."
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Ron Silver
"I kind of dwindled into acting."
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"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."
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Harrison Ford
"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."
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"It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work."
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George Peppard
"It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work."
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"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
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Harrison Ford
"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
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"I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train."
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Robbie Coltrane
"I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train."
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"My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark."
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Casey Affleck
"My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark."
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"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
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John Hurt
"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
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"I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me."
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Corey Haim
"I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me."
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"My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite."
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Skeet Ulrich
"My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite."
Day,
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"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
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Eli Wallach
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
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"We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself."
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Tom Berenger
"We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself."
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"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
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Andy Garcia
"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
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"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."
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George Grossmith
"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."
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"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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Mark Rylance
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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"My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect."
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James Lafferty
"My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect."
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"My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it."
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Robert Vaughn
"My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it."
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"No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do."
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Dabney Coleman
"No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do."
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"When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family."
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Lance Loud
"When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family."
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"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
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Jesse Eisenberg
"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
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"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
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Stanley Tucci
"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
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"Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall."
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Dick York
"Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall."
God,
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"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie."
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Jeremy London
"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie."
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"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
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Jay Mohr
"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
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"Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off."
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Robert Redford
"Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off."
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"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark."
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Max von Sydow
"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark."
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"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."
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Seth Green
"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."
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"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
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Keanu Reeves
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
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"We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show."
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Dick Van Dyke
"We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show."
End,
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"Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later."
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Ray Liotta
"Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later."
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"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should."
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Richard Dreyfuss
"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should."
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"I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it."
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Jonathan Frid
"I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it."
Old,
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"We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!"
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Ryan Sypek
"We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!"
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"It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established."
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Corin Nemec
"It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established."
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"Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on."
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Chris Cooper
"Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on."
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"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."
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Billy Bob Thornton
"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."
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"Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do."
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Adrian Grenier
"Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do."
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"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."
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Dominic Chianese
"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."
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"We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it."
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James Woods
"We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it."
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"It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing."
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Jack Nicholson
"It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing."
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"I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are."
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Randy Harrison
"I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are."
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"You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA."
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Charlton Heston
"You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA."
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"I've been using narcotics for 20 years."
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Bela Lugosi
"I've been using narcotics for 20 years."
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"Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk."
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Tom Hanks
"Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk."
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"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."
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Marc Wallice
"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."
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"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown."
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Alan Autry
"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown."
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"God continues to work miracles in my life."
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Willie Aames
"God continues to work miracles in my life."
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