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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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"I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines."
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Neil Patrick Harris
"I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines."
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"I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein."
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Michael Bergin
"I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein."
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"I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity."
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James Lafferty
"I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity."
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"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."
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Peter Sarsgaard
"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."
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"I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days."
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Cyril Cusack
"I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days."
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"Before you can do something you must first be something."
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John Gielgud
"Before you can do something you must first be something."
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"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
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Olivier Martinez
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
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"I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day."
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Tony Curtis
"I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day."
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"I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast."
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Boris Kodjoe
"I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast."
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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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Ted Shackelford
"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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"I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time."
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Bruce McCulloch
"I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time."
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"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children."
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Lee Majors
"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children."
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"It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year."
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Fred Melamed
"It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year."
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"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
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William Shatner
"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
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"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."
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Jack Bowman
"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."
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"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour."
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Dan Castellaneta
"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour."
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"I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule."
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Andrew Shue
"I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule."
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"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
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Steve Buscemi
"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
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"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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Ricardo Montalban
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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"When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read."
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Victor Garber
"When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read."
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"If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out."
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Robert Englund
"If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out."
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"I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research."
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John Ratzenberger
"I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research."
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"Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better."
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David Ogden Stiers
"Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better."
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"I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30."
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Ryan Phillippe
"I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30."
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"Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed."
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Samuel L. Jackson
"Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed."
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"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."
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David Ogden Stiers
"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."
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"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
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Larry David
"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
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"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."
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Donald Pleasence
"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."
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"I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art."
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"I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust."
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Artie Lange
"I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust."
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"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
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Peter Davison
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
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"We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf."
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Lalla Ward
"We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf."
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"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."
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Ron Silver
"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."
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"I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!"
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Stephen Baldwin
"I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!"
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"I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think."
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Morris Chestnut
"I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think."
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"In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite."
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Ron Silver
"In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite."
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"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
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Kenneth Branagh
"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
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"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."
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Gabriel Byrne
"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."
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"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."
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Ron Livingston
"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."
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"I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle."
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Christopher Meloni
"I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle."
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"I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!"
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Josh Hartnett
"I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!"
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"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."
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Anthony Anderson
"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."
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"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
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Jim Coleman
"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
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"I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere."
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Tommy Lee Jones
"I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere."
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"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."
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Tony Randall
"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."
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"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun."
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"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting."
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Jason Biggs
"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting."
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"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."
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David Selby
"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."
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