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"As an actor, I was just satisfied to work."
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Thayer David
"As an actor, I was just satisfied to work."
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"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."
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Peter Ustinov
"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."
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"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."
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Mark Ruffalo
"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."
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"But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more."
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Gregory Harrison
"But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more."
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"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."
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Jeremy Irons
"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."
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"I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life."
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Jim Coleman
"I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life."
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"You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring."
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Robert Stack
"You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring."
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"There is no more final end than death."
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John Thaw
"There is no more final end than death."
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"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer."
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Kyle MacLachlan
"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer."
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"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
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David Ogden Stiers
"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
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"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."
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Robert Redford
"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."
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"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."
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Matthew Fox
"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."
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"I'm theater trained."
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Steve Zahn
"I'm theater trained."
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"I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain."
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Jeffrey Combs
"I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain."
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"I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was."
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Balthazar Getty
"I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was."
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"I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened."
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Jason Ritter
"I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened."
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"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."
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Edward James Olmos
"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."
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"And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs."
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Beau Bridges
"And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs."
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"I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process."
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William Hurt
"I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process."
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"I'm not involved with the female world."
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John Lone
"I'm not involved with the female world."
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"We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men."
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Cesar Romero
"We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men."
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"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me."
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Blair Underwood
"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me."
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"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."
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Theodore Bikel
"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."
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"I am for people. I can't help it."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I am for people. I can't help it."
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"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
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Orlando Bloom
"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
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"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."
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Christopher Meloni
"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."
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"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."
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Paul Robeson
"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."
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"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that."
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Tom Cruise
"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that."
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"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
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Christopher Atkins
"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
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"Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president."
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Stephen Dorff
"Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president."
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"I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing."
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Thomas Jane
"I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing."
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"My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church."
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Henry Fonda
"My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church."
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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
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Donald Pleasence
"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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Bob Geldof
"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me."
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Rod Taylor
"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me."
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"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
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Timothy West
"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
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"If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick."
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Eric Braeden
"If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick."
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"I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go."
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"When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along."
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Michael Dorn
"When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along."
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"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."
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Robert Pattinson
"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."
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"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."
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Jack Nicholson
"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."
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"Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal."
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Rupert Grint
"Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal."
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"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"
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James Caan
"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"
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"I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey."
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Parker Stevenson
"I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey."
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"I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about."
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Skeet Ulrich
"I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about."
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"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."
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"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water."
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Parker Stevenson
"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water."
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"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."
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Robert Stack
"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."
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"I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'"
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Kevin Costner
"I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'"
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"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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Peter Davison
"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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