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"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."
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Jeffrey Wright
"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."
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"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."
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Wilford Brimley
"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."
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"If the money's right, I'll do a film."
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Oliver Reed
"If the money's right, I'll do a film."
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"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."
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Bill Bixby
"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."
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"I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it."
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Richard O'Brien
"I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it."
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"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."
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Barry Corbin
"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."
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"If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me."
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Giovanni Ribisi
"If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me."
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"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
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Nicholas Lea
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
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"Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them."
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Thomas Jane
"Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them."
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"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through."
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Randy Harrison
"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through."
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"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."
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Alan Rickman
"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."
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"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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Kevin Spacey
"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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"There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good."
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Joe Lando
"There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good."
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"Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter."
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Raul Julia
"Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter."
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"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."
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John Malkovich
"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."
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"It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in."
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Andy Garcia
"It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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Ewan McGregor
"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."
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Matthew McGrory
"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."
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"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."
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Dennis Farina
"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."
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"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."
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Albert Finney
"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."
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"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."
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Bruce Dern
"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."
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"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."
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Cary Elwes
"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."
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"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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Orson Welles
"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
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Will Smith
"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
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"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
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Peter Ustinov
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
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"Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies."
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Richard Dreyfuss
"Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies."
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"Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"
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John Banner
"Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"
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"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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Danny Glover
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job."
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James Gandolfini
"I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job."
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"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
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Alan Thicke
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
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"America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts."
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Dirk Benedict
"America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts."
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"Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet."
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John Bunny
"Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet."
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"Acting is the ability to dream on cue."
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Ralph Richardson
"Acting is the ability to dream on cue."
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"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."
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Charles Dance
"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."
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"Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it."
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Thomas Lennon
"Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it."
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"I respect a woman too much to marry her."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I respect a woman too much to marry her."
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"Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman."
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Judd Nelson
"Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman."
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"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
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Bruce Lee
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
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"You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."
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Johnny Depp
"You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."
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"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."
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Paul Newman
"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."
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"I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together."
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M. Emmet Walsh
"I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together."
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"Women love a self-confident bald man."
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Larry David
"Women love a self-confident bald man."
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"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
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Mickey Rooney
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
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"I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand."
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
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Jeremy Brett
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
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"We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves."
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"When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms."
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Lisa Whelchel
"When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms."
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"I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him."
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Vincent Gallo
"I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him."
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"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
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Paul M. Glaser
"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
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