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"My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne."
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Joseph Bologna
"My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne."
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"I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up."
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James Woods
"I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up."
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"I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it."
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Gene Wilder
"I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it."
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"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
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Terence Stamp
"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
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"I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing."
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Bradley Cooper
"I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing."
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"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."
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Paul Newman
"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."
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"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."
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Rod Steiger
"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."
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"If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero."
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Vin Diesel
"If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero."
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"I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests."
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Brendan Fraser
"I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests."
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"Whiskey will always be a part of my life."
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Artie Lange
"Whiskey will always be a part of my life."
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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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James MacArthur
"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people."
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Alan Autry
"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people."
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"On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me."
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Jason Mewes
"On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me."
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"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."
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James Woods
"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."
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"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."
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Derek Jacobi
"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."
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"I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about."
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Matt Lucas
"I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about."
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"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
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Leon Askin
"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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Eric Bogosian
"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
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Ben Kingsley
"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
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James Dean
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
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"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
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Hector Elizondo
"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
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"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care."
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Victor Garber
"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care."
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"I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember."
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Joaquin Phoenix
"I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember."
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"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses."
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"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped."
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Verne Troyer
"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped."
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"I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left."
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"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."
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Michael J. Fox
"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."
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"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
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Geoffrey Rush
"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
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"When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed."
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Oliver Reed
"When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed."
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"I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal."
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"It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant."
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Eric Stoltz
"It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant."
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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."
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Garry Marshall
"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."
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"The whole family is tight. We all really love each other."
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Kieran Culkin
"The whole family is tight. We all really love each other."
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"I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak."
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Hector Elizondo
"I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak."
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"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."
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Dan Castellaneta
"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."
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"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
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Christian Bale
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
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"You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in."
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James Gandolfini
"You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in."
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"I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological."
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Peter Coyote
"I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological."
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"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."
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Andrew McCarthy
"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."
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"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
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Griffin Dunne
"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
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"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."
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River Phoenix
"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."
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"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."
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Lukas Haas
"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."
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"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
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Milo Ventimiglia
"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
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"I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world."
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Elijah Wood
"I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world."
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"Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed."
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Dwight Schultz
"Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed."
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"You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young."
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George Takei
"You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young."
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"I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill."
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Samuel L. Jackson
"I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill."
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"Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along."
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Harvey Keitel
"Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along."
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"The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video."
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Olivier Martinez
"The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video."
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"There are different reasons to make movies."
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Aaron Eckhart
"There are different reasons to make movies."
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