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"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."
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Paul Rudd
"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."
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"But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational."
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Bruce McCulloch
"But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational."
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"I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end."
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Dennis Franz
"I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end."
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"I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love."
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Orlando Bloom
"I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love."
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"I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place."
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Scott Speedman
"I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place."
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"Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek."
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Casper Van Dien
"Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek."
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"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."
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Michael Fassbender
"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."
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"I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me."
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Woody Harrelson
"I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me."
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"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"
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David Selby
"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"
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"Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience."
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Burt Ward
"Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience."
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"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
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Sylvester Stallone
"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
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"I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress."
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Dabney Coleman
"I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress."
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"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."
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Aaron Eckhart
"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."
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"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
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Martin Sheen
"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
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"But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie."
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Robert Towne
"But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie."
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"I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work."
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Milo Ventimiglia
"I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work."
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"Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood."
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Nick Mancuso
"Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood."
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"I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness."
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Christopher Reeve
"I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness."
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"Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling."
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River Phoenix
"Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling."
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"We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building."
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Dick York
"We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building."
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"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."
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Christian Bale
"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."
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"Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon."
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Donnie Wahlberg
"Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon."
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"You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work."
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Scott Wolf
"You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work."
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"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty."
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Kenneth Branagh
"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty."
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"I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked."
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Mark Roberts
"I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked."
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"Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible."
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Fisher Stevens
"Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible."
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"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."
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Dennis Franz
"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."
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"I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!"
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Patrick Stewart
"I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!"
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"Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else."
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Richard Masur
"Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else."
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"I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there."
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Robbie Coltrane
"I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there."
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"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."
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Steve Burns
"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."
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"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."
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Martin Sheen
"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."
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"My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing."
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Jack Nicholson
"My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing."
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"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that."
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Erik Estrada
"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that."
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"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
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Peter Ustinov
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
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"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."
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Alan Alda
"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."
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"Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids."
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Bob Geldof
"Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids."
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"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car."
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Jack Lemmon
"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car."
Car,
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"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing."
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David Selby
"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing."
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"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
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Jack Bowman
"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
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"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them."
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Dan Castellaneta
"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them."
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"I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on."
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Corin Nemec
"I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on."
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"A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget."
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Kent McCord
"A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget."
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"I'm not the most talkative guy in the world."
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Skeet Ulrich
"I'm not the most talkative guy in the world."
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"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."
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Donald Pleasence
"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."
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"I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair."
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Mackenzie Crook
"I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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Christopher Plummer
"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman."
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Steve Guttenberg
"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman."
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"Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us."
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Omar Epps
"Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us."
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"I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated."
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Drew Carey
"I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated."
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