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"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."

"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."

David Selby, American Actor

42

"Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with."

"Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with."

Buck Henry, American Actor

42

"I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man."

"I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man."

Lalla Ward, English Actor

Science, Work, Fiction, Fun

42

"Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays."

"Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays."

Bob Balaban, American Actor

Love, Movies, Time, Day

42

"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."

"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."

Campbell Scott, American Actor

42

"I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in."

"I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in."

Donald Pleasence, English Actor

42

"To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?"

"To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?"

Wentworth Miller, English Actor

Home, People, Play, Pretty

42

"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."

"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

42

"One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country."

"One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country."

Danny Glover, American Actor

Country, Violence, World

42

"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."

"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."

Stephen Baldwin, American Actor

Funny, Truth, Comedy, Wrong

42

"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."

"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American Actor

42

"All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap."

"All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap."

Dustin Diamond, American Actor

People, Negative, Banks, Stars

42

"To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great."

"To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great."

Jeff Goldblum, American Actor

Thought, Thoughts, Identity, Sense, Thinking

42

"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."

"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."

Frank Langella, American Actor

42

"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."

"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."

Leon Askin, Austrian Actor

42

"If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny."

"If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny."

Larry David, American Actor

Funny, Truth, Feeling

42

"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money."

"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money."

Charles S. Dutton, American Actor

Money, Life, Acting

42

"I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game."

"I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game."

Kurt Russell, American Actor

Time, Talent, Evaluate

42

"I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy."

"I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy."

David Niven, English Actor

Movies, Acting, Care, School

42

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage."

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage."

Tony Randall, American Actor

History, Music, Crime

42

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."

Robert De Niro, American Actor

Truth, Actors, Class, Hollywood

42

"I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity."

"I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity."

Michael Bergin, American Actor

Woman, Women, Insecurity

42

"Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life."

"Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life."

Michael Berryman, American Actor

Life, Character, Fun

42

"Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years."

"Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years."

Hugh Dancy, British Actor

People, Books, Play, Years

42

"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."

"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."

Gregory Hines, American Actor

Music, Work, Time, Drinking

42

"Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me."

"Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

42

"I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss."

"I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Family, Home, Being, Country

42

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

Sylvester Stallone, American Actor

Success, Failure

42

"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."

"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."

Ethan Suplee, American Actor

42

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

42

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Speculation, Prudence, Advice, Humor, Risk

42

"Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique."

"Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique."

Richard Attenborough, English Actor

Genius, Cinema, Now

42

"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with."

"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with."

Joe Morton, American Actor

Business, Love, Movies, Work

42

"Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact."

"Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

Character, Actors, Fact, Questions

42

"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety."

"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Government, Duty, First, Obligation

42

"I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days."

"I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days."

Roger Moore, English Actor

42

"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."

"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."

Hugh Grant, English Actor

Being, Celebrity, Disappointments, Man

42

"My whole life, I've been telling jokes."

"My whole life, I've been telling jokes."

Brad Garrett, American Actor

42

"I think that making love is the best form of exercise."

"I think that making love is the best form of exercise."

Cary Grant, American Actor

42

"I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment."

"I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment."

David Soul, American Actor

Anger, Time, Management, Fact

42

"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."

"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."

Steve Guttenberg, American Actor

Life, Movies, Time, Building

42

"I play a huge variety of roles."

"I play a huge variety of roles."

Casper Van Dien, American Actor

42

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

People, Belief, First, Friends

42

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

Father, Class, Man, Poor

42

"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."

"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."

Chi McBride, American Actor

School, Schools

42

"Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?"

"Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?"

Casey Affleck, American Actor

42

"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."

"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

42

"People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided."

"People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided."

James Daly, American Actor

People, Internet

42

"It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!"

"It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!"

Leonardo DiCaprio, American Actor

42

"There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster."

"There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster."

Paul Rudd, American Actor

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