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"Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here."
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Harry Shearer
"Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here."
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"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
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John Cassavetes
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
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"It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!"
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Derek Jacobi
"It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!"
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"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
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Jack Nicholson
"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
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"Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming."
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Peter Boyle
"Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming."
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"I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ."
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Willie Aames
"I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ."
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"I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being."
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Gabriel Byrne
"I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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David Selby
"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
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Griffin Dunne
"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
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"I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me."
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Ian Hart
"I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me."
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"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"
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Richard Dean Anderson
"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"
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"They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good."
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Corbin Bernsen
"They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good."
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"I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from."
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"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."
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John Krasinski
"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."
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"I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem."
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Robert Guillaume
"I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem."
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"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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Jack Nicholson
"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human."
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Bruce Greenwood
"I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human."
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"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before."
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Hugh Grant
"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before."
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"There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is."
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Richard Widmark
"There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is."
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"But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?"
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Fisher Stevens
"But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?"
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"It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know."
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Ron Livingston
"It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know."
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"When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play."
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Joe Morton
"When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play."
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"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."
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Tommy Rettig
"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."
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"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
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Tim Robbins
"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
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"I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so."
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Brian Austin Green
"I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so."
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"Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts."
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Alan Ladd
"Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts."
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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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Erich von Stroheim
"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."
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Patrick Stewart
"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."
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"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."
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Ben Kingsley
"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."
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"So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it."
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Brandon Routh
"So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it."
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"I hope to always be doing some low budget things."
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Rider Strong
"I hope to always be doing some low budget things."
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"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all."
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Harvey Keitel
"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all."
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"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."
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Theodore Bikel
"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."
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"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."
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Charlie Chaplin
"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."
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"I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man."
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Henry Fonda
"I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man."
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"I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty."
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Bill Paxton
"I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty."
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"I just want to be rich and famous."
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Ian Hart
"I just want to be rich and famous."
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"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't."
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Viggo Mortensen
"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't."
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"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."
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Michael Landon
"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."
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"I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically."
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Scott Speedman
"I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically."
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"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."
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Richard Pryor
"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."
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"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
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Brandon Thomas
"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
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"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam."
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Parker Stevenson
"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam."
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"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."
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Alan Alda
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."
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"Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness."
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Aaron Eckhart
"Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness."
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"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."
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William Powell
"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."
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"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
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Tom Berenger
"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
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"You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans."
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Parker Stevenson
"You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans."
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"Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug."
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Tim Robbins
"Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug."
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