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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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"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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Alan Bates
"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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"I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that."
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Gerard Butler
"I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that."
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"I don't know what humor is."
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Will Rogers
"I don't know what humor is."
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"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."
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River Phoenix
"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."
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"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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James D'arcy
"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food."
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Marc Wallice
"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food."
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"I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors."
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Kurt Russell
"I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors."
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"It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart."
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Tom Selleck
"It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart."
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"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
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Wentworth Miller
"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
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"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."
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Orlando Bloom
"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."
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"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about."
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Parker Stevenson
"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about."
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"Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something."
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Robert Pattinson
"Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something."
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"Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods."
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Jon Voight
"Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods."
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"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
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Dougray Scott
"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
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"It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory."
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Kenneth Branagh
"It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory."
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"It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor."
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Don Johnson
"It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor."
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"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."
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Marlon Brando
"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."
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"I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now."
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Tobey Maguire
"I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now."
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"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
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Colin Firth
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
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"I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting."
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Robert Ryan
"I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting."
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"I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans."
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Robbie Coltrane
"I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans."
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"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible."
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Sean William Scott
"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible."
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"I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to."
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Dabney Coleman
"I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to."
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"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."
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Ted Danson
"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."
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"I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much."
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John Glover
"I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much."
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"The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies."
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Adam Arkin
"The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies."
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"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."
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Dick Van Dyke
"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."
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"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair."
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Patrick Stewart
"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair."
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"The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes."
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Adrian Edmondson
"The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes."
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"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy."
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Dwayne Johnson
"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy."
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"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
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Tony Curtis
"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
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"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."
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Steve Burns
"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."
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"I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes."
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Lucas Grabeel
"I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes."
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"What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person."
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James Lafferty
"What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person."
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"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."
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Dabney Coleman
"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."
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"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
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Gene Hackman
"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
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"It isn't always hard work that does the job."
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Paul Guilfoyle
"It isn't always hard work that does the job."
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"I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!"
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Jeff Bridges
"I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!"
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"I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany."
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Thomas Kretschmann
"I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany."
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"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
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Ajay Devgan
"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
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"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."
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Burt Lancaster
"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."
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"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."
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James Earl Jones
"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."
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"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool."
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Michael Bergin
"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool."
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"I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again."
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Peter Fonda
"I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again."
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"Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay."
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Dwight Schultz
"Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay."
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"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."
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Jeff Bridges
"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."
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"Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view."
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Cesar Romero
"Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view."
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"I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't."
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Dick Van Dyke
"I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't."
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"I don't get called very often to play innocents."
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Christopher Meloni
"I don't get called very often to play innocents."
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