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"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."
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Al Lewis
"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."
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"I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!"
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David Prowse
"I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!"
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"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment."
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Maximilian Schell
"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment."
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"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."
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Sean Penn
"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."
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"Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space."
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Robert Stack
"Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space."
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"It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media."
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Bill Mumy
"It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media."
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"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer."
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Kent McCord
"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer."
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"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter."
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Larry David
"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter."
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"Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life."
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Mark Roberts
"Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life."
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"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
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Griffin Dunne
"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
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"But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy."
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Eric McCormack
"But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy."
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"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."
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Alan Rickman
"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."
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"I was born into a family of preachers."
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David Soul
"I was born into a family of preachers."
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"That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time."
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Dwayne Johnson
"That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time."
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"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
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Dwayne Hickman
"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
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"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."
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Danny Masterson
"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."
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"I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world."
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Gedde Watanabe
"I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world."
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"We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'."
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Zac Efron
"We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'."
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"I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth."
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F. Murray Abraham
"I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth."
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"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."
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James Denton
"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."
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"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you."
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Vin Diesel
"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you."
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"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
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Rick Moranis
"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
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"There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success."
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Stacy Keach
"There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success."
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"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
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Harvey Korman
"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
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"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries."
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Lukas Haas
"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries."
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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
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Ajay Naidu
"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
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"We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader."
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Tom Baker
"We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader."
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"Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film."
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Ron Moody
"Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film."
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money."
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Robert Duvall
"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money."
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"I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true."
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Richard Pryor
"I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true."
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"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
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Robert Towne
"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
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"It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000."
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Klaus Kinski
"It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000."
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"But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor."
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"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."
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James Caan
"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."
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"Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums."
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Oliver Reed
"Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums."
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"A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies."
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Michael Douglas
"A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies."
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"In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time."
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Blair Underwood
"In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time."
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"And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot."
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Keith Carradine
"And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot."
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"I'm a control freak. Totally."
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Stanley Tucci
"I'm a control freak. Totally."
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"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it."
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James D'arcy
"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it."
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"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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Paul Scofield
"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
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Matthew Modine
"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
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"When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind."
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Peter Mayhew
"When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind."
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"The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?"
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Orlando Bloom
"The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?"
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"It certainly made a film writing career for me."
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Buck Henry
"It certainly made a film writing career for me."
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"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."
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Matt Dillon
"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."
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"I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character."
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James Lafferty
"I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character."
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"I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."
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Ed O'Neill
"I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."
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"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
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Griffin Dunne
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
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