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"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
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Bill Murray
"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
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"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
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Stephen Rea
"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
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"And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused."
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Martin Sheen
"And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused."
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"I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember."
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Dick York
"I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember."
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"My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went."
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Beau Bridges
"My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went."
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"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart."
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Conrad Veidt
"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart."
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"I want to make smart television."
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Michael Ironside
"I want to make smart television."
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"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."
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Maurice Chevalier
"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."
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"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
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"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."
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Morris Chestnut
"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."
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"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
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Dwayne Hickman
"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
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"I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act."
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Burt Reynolds
"I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act."
Act,
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"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"
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Rod Steiger
"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"
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"But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film."
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Jay Hernandez
"But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film."
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"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."
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Terrence Howard
"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."
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"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
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Dominic Chianese
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
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"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine."
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Sean Penn
"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine."
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"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."
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Jeffrey Hunter
"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."
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"You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop."
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Derek Jacobi
"You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop."
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"To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part."
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Robert Duvall
"To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part."
Day,
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"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
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"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."
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Dennis Weaver
"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."
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"Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion."
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Peter Coyote
"Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion."
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"I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives."
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Corbin Bernsen
"I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives."
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"Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen."
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Corin Nemec
"Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen."
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"I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life."
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Tom Cruise
"I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life."
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"Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want."
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Joel Gretsch
"Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want."
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"Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill."
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Ron Silver
"Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill."
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"I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that."
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David Hasselhoff
"I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that."
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"It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible."
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Johnny Knoxville
"It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible."
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"For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working."
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Gerald McRaney
"For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working."
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"But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something."
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Dabney Coleman
"But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something."
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"In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already."
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John Corbett
"In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already."
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"I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds."
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David Morse
"I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds."
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"You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you."
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Jon Voight
"You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you."
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"There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want."
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Hugh Dancy
"There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want."
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"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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Alan Autry
"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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"If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no."
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Cesar Romero
"If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no."
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"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours."
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Spalding Gray
"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours."
Sex,
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"I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career."
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DeForest Kelley
"I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career."
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"There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion."
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Tom Selleck
"There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion."
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"What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said."
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Mel Gibson
"What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said."
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"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
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Max Beerbohm
"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
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"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."
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Eric McCormack
"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."
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"The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn."
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Taylor Lautner
"The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn."
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"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs."
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Ron Livingston
"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs."
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"I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?"
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Armand Assante
"I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?"
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"In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge."
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Esai Morales
"In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge."
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"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."
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Robert Pattinson
"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."
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"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
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