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"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be."
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Tom Baker
"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be."
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"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
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Peter Ustinov
"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
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"Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people."
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Dennis Weaver
"Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people."
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"I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?"
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Charlie Sheen
"I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?"
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"I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."
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George M. Cohan
"I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."
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"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
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Gary Sinise
"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
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"There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it."
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Drew Carey
"There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it."
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"When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse."
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Hesketh Pearson
"When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse."
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"It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication."
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Mark Ruffalo
"It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication."
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"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
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Jason Patric
"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
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"I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work."
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Marion Ross
"I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work."
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"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
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Nathan Lane
"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
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"I have to do what's right."
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Herve Villechaize
"I have to do what's right."
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"People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice."
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Olivier Martinez
"People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice."
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"From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment."
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David Hyde Pierce
"From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment."
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"When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself."
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Rick Yune
"When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself."
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"I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track."
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Marc Singer
"I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track."
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"People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show."
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Mark Harmon
"People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show."
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"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."
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Woody Harrelson
"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."
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"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
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Tom Wopat
"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
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"Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action."
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Morris Chestnut
"Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action."
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"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
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Colin Mochrie
"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
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"I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted."
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Dick York
"I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted."
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"I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no."
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John Cusack
"I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no."
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"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."
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Richard Attenborough
"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."
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"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."
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Olivier Martinez
"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."
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"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
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Bruce Lee
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
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"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
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Edgar Bergen
"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
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"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."
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Klaus Kinski
"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."
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"Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting."
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Jason Patric
"Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting."
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"Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely."
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"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
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Ryan Phillippe
"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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William Devane
"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death."
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Dennis Quaid
"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death."
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"There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera."
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Ron Livingston
"There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera."
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"I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States."
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Kyle MacLachlan
"I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States."
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"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
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Mako
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
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"Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not."
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Michael Landon
"Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not."
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"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."
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Tom Berenger
"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."
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"I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on."
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Shawn Wayans
"I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on."
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"I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something."
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Randy Harrison
"I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something."
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"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it."
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Randy Harrison
"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it."
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"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
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Jack Nicholson
"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
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"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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Leonard Nimoy
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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"And I just want to work with good directors and good people."
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Charlie Hunnam
"And I just want to work with good directors and good people."
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"I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler."
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"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."
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John Cusack
"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."
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"It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy."
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Dean Stockwell
"It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy."
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"When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way."
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Keith Carradine
"When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way."
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"Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days."
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Stephen Collins
"Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days."
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