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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
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John Cleese
"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
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"Kids love rabbits... they just like them."
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John Bach
"Kids love rabbits... they just like them."
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"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."
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Tom Berenger
"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."
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"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."
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John Ratzenberger
"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."
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"I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised."
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Jai Rodriguez
"I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised."
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"That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character."
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Brandon Routh
"That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character."
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"Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that."
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Robert Redford
"Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that."
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"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
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Jim Coleman
"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
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"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."
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William Shatner
"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."
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"If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up."
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Brent Spiner
"If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up."
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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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Russell Crowe
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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"I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts."
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Marla Sokoloff
"I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts."
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"If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place."
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Tobey Maguire
"If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place."
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"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."
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Sheryl Lee
"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."
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"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
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Marcello Mastroianni
"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
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"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"
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Tom Wopat
"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"
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"I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky."
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Mark Goddard
"I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky."
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"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
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David McCallum
"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
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"You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative."
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Josh Duhamel
"You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative."
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"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."
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Donald Sutherland
"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."
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"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems."
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Edward James Olmos
"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems."
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"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time."
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Will Rogers
"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time."
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"I'd always felt a man should marry later in life."
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Frank Langella
"I'd always felt a man should marry later in life."
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"What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity."
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Giovanni Ribisi
"What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity."
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"You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!"
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Peter Falk
"You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!"
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"Obviously an actor draws on his own experience."
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Christopher Walken
"Obviously an actor draws on his own experience."
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"Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist."
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Shemar Moore
"Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist."
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"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."
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Terence Stamp
"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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Adam Rich
"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."
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Ryan Phillippe
"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."
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"I'm a very proud actor."
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F. Murray Abraham
"I'm a very proud actor."
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"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
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Alec Baldwin
"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
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"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you."
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Josh Lucas
"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you."
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"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"
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Liam Neeson
"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"
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"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can."
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Parker Stevenson
"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can."
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"You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse."
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Hector Elizondo
"You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse."
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"England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife."
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Cedric Hardwicke
"England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife."
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"There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave."
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Christian Slater
"There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave."
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"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
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Christian Bale
"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
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"The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so."
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Anthony LaPaglia
"The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so."
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"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
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Ajay Devgan
"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
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"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."
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Dom DeLuise
"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."
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"My sisters are my favorite people on earth."
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Ryan Phillippe
"My sisters are my favorite people on earth."
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"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman."
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Kevin Spacey
"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman."
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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."
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Ben Kingsley
"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."
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"It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them."
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Randy Harrison
"It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them."
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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."
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Robert Pattinson
"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."
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"To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended."
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Jackie Cooper
"To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended."
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"When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap."
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Kurt Russell
"When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap."
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"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
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Gary Cooper
"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
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