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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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"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
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John Ratzenberger
"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
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"Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?"
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Steve Guttenberg
"Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?"
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"My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands."
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Nicholas Lea
"My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands."
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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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Alan Rickman
"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."
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Max von Sydow
"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."
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"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."
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Eli Wallach
"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."
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"I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year."
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Tom Felton
"I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year."
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"I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally."
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Werner Klemperer
"I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally."
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"Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them."
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Hal Holbrook
"Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them."
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"I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security."
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Robert Stack
"I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security."
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"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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Corey Feldman
"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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"For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen."
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Charles S. Dutton
"For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen."
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"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
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Zac Efron
"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
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"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
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Richard Pryor
"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
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Kenneth Branagh
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
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"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early."
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Gregory Harrison
"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early."
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"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."
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David Friedman
"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."
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"I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state."
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Dixie Carter
"I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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Dougray Scott
"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"
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Robert Towne
"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"
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"How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood."
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Harold Ramis
"How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood."
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"So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper."
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"The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking."
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Christopher Plummer
"The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking."
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"I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love."
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Treat Williams
"I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love."
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"People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models."
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Andrew Shue
"People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models."
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"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
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Richard Roxburgh
"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
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"You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are."
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Alan Bates
"You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are."
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"Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is."
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Joseph Bologna
"Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is."
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"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."
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Liam Neeson
"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."
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"No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me."
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
"No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me."
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"Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted."
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Willem Dafoe
"Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted."
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"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
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Jackie Cooper
"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
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"The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy."
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Billy Barty
"The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy."
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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
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Ryan Stiles
"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
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"Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth."
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Bob Barker
"Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth."
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"Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection."
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Bill Mumy
"Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection."
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"Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them."
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Blair Underwood
"Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them."
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"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."
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Macaulay Culkin
"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."
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"The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented."
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Frank Oz
"The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented."
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"I'm always worried about my money for some reason."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"I'm always worried about my money for some reason."
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"Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance."
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James Lafferty
"Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance."
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"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."
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Rick Moranis
"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."
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"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell."
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Lee Tergesen
"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell."
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"I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform."
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Neil Patrick Harris
"I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform."
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"The good life is one that's artistically made."
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William Shatner
"The good life is one that's artistically made."
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"I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting."
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Dabney Coleman
"I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting."
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"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
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Matthew Perry
"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
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"After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through."
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Adam Rickitt
"After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through."
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"I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly."
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Harry Dean Stanton
"I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly."
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