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Quotes by Actor

"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
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Jimmy Smits
"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
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"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."
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Ron Silver
"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."
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"Series work is just grueling."
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Robert Urich
"Series work is just grueling."
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"The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically."
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Ryan Phillippe
"The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically."
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"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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David Friedman
"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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"If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot."
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Richard Gere
"If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot."
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"Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be."
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Dennis Hopper
"Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be."
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"Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world."
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Adam Rich
"Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world."
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"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night."
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Rod Taylor
"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night."
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"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"
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Ed O'Neill
"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"
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"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show."
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Will Arnett
"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show."
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"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."
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Jon Voight
"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."
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"I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting."
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Derek Luke
"I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting."
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"Political courage is not political suicide."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Political courage is not political suicide."
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"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
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Tom Cruise
"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
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"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
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Edgar Bergen
"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
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"There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out."
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Kevin Costner
"There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out."
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"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."
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Michael Caine
"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."
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"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."
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Stephen Dorff
"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."
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"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."
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James Denton
"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."
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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."
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James Earl Jones
"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."
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"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom."
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Parker Stevenson
"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom."
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"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
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Tom Berenger
"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
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"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."
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Dennis Weaver
"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."
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"We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting."
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Rupert Grint
"We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting."
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"I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work."
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Scott Speedman
"I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work."
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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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Griffin Dunne
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind."
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Richard Gere
"In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind."
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"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."
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Eric Braeden
"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."
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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."
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Amitabh Bachchan
"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."
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"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk."
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John Lone
"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk."
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"Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role."
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Christian Slater
"Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role."
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"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
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William Petersen
"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
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"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
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Casper Van Dien
"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
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"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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"Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17."
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Parker Stevenson
"Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17."
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"I was a dummy in school."
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Alan Ladd
"I was a dummy in school."
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"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
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David Ogden Stiers
"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
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"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer."
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Danny Aiello
"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer."
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"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."
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Paul Robeson
"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."
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"The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself."
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Charles Bronson
"The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself."
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"The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday."
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"I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with."
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"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."
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Ray Liotta
"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."
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"The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world."
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Christopher Meloni
"The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world."
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"You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have."
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Anthony Anderson
"You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have."
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"I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions."
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Devon Sawa
"I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions."
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"I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon."
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Matt Dillon
"I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon."
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"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."
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"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
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Patrick Stewart
"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
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