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"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off."
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David Naughton
"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off."
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"I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers."
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Joel Gretsch
"I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers."
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"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
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Adam Pascal
"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
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"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."
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Tom Selleck
"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."
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"I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one."
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Jean Gabin
"I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one."
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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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Alan Ladd
"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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"Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen."
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F. Murray Abraham
"Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen."
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"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."
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Matt Damon
"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."
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"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
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Shane West
"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
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"It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights."
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James Denton
"It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights."
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"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
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Shemar Moore
"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
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"Try being my size and going into a public restroom."
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Billy Barty
"Try being my size and going into a public restroom."
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"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life."
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Mandy Patinkin
"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life."
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"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
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Charlie Chaplin
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
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"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
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"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess."
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John Cusack
"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess."
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"No, I consider myself computer illiterate."
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Casper Van Dien
"No, I consider myself computer illiterate."
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"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."
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Josh Hartnett
"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."
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"It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs."
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James Coburn
"It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs."
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"People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think."
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Adam Arkin
"People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think."
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"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
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Liev Schreiber
"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
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"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."
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Will Estes
"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."
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"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
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Amitabh Bachchan
"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
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"Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard."
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William Hurt
"Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard."
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"My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing."
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David Hasselhoff
"My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing."
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"It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!"
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Gavin MacLeod
"It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!"
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"I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today."
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Guy Pearce
"I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today."
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"I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can."
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Mandy Patinkin
"I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can."
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"But I can't remember who is in my CD player now."
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Eric Roberts
"But I can't remember who is in my CD player now."
Now,
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"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies."
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Cesar Romero
"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies."
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"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."
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Charlie Chaplin
"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."
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"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more."
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Bela Lugosi
"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more."
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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
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Bruce Lee
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
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"I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing."
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Rob Lowe
"I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing."
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"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical."
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Victor Garber
"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical."
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"But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second."
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Thomas Haden Church
"But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second."
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"I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep."
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Neil Patrick Harris
"I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep."
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"Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment."
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Skeet Ulrich
"Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment."
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"You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither."
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Drew Carey
"You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither."
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"The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break."
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Richard Masur
"The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break."
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"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
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David James Elliott
"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
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"Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice."
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Brandon Thomas
"Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice."
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"I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore."
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"I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun."
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Alan Alda
"I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun."
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"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
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Christopher Eccleston
"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
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"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
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Daniel Day Lewis
"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
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"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."
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Ben Kingsley
"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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Tim Robbins
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror."
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Robert Stack
"I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror."
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"It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now."
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Thomas Jane
"It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now."
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