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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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"People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday."
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Peter Fonda
"People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday."
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"I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house."
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Jared Leto
"I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house."
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"I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working."
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Mackenzie Astin
"I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working."
Age,
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"I write, but I also act."
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Eric Bogosian
"I write, but I also act."
Act,
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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Martin Mull
"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
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Javier Bardem
"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
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"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."
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Kevin Bacon
"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."
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"I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado."
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Joe Lando
"I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado."
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"If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all."
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Tobey Maguire
"If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all."
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"In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends."
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David Spade
"In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends."
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"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."
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Donald Sutherland
"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."
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"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."
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Dustin Hoffman
"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."
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"I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf."
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Jack Lemon
"I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf."
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"I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help."
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Tommy Rettig
"I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help."
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"Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important."
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James McAvoy
"Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important."
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"I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing."
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Noah Hathaway
"I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing."
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"I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos."
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Alex Winter
"I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos."
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"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."
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Mel Gibson
"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."
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"Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along."
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Richard Widmark
"Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along."
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"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."
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Liam Neeson
"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."
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"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
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Judd Nelson
"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
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"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."
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Bela Lugosi
"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."
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"And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child."
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Robert Englund
"And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child."
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"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."
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Ted Danson
"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."
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"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."
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John Ratzenberger
"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."
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"But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you."
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Eric Roberts
"But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you."
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"Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting."
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"I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?"
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Alan Alda
"I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?"
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"Playing live if the thing I love doing best."
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Bob Geldof
"Playing live if the thing I love doing best."
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"I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it."
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Dwight Schultz
"I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it."
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"I don't really get a chance to watch much television."
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Will Estes
"I don't really get a chance to watch much television."
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"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."
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Drew Carey
"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."
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"People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood."
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Omar Epps
"People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood."
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"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."
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Michael C. Hall
"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."
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"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
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Armand Assante
"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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Erik Estrada
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."
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David Niven
"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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Christopher Atkins
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying."
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Michael C. Hall
"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying."
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"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes."
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Mark Wahlberg
"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes."
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"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."
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Jackie Cooper
"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."
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"Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years."
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"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."
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Alex Winter
"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."
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"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
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James Dean
"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
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"There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over."
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Michael Shanks
"There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over."
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"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."
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Jonathan Frid
"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."
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"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
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Dennis Farina
"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
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"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"
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Dustin Hoffman
"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"
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