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"I think drug movies free the director to make intense films."
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Ray Liotta
"I think drug movies free the director to make intense films."
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"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way."
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Cillian Murphy
"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way."
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"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."
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Alex O'Loughlin
"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."
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"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."
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Peter Ustinov
"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."
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"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books."
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David Strathairn
"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books."
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"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
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Jack Bowman
"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
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"I love the ocean. Boats, not so much."
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Jeff Goldblum
"I love the ocean. Boats, not so much."
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"Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people."
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Paul Guilfoyle
"Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people."
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"We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me."
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Donnie Wahlberg
"We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me."
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"Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time."
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Corin Nemec
"Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time."
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"Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well."
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Michael York
"Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well."
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"There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character."
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Scott Speedman
"There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character."
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"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters."
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Joe Mantegna
"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters."
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"David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now."
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Ethan Suplee
"David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now."
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"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
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Tom Wopat
"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
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"The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with."
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Michael Bergin
"The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with."
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"In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms."
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Chuck Norris
"In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms."
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"I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them."
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Herve Villechaize
"I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them."
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"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
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Dean Martin
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
Lie,
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"He lives with his creativity in high gear."
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John Travolta
"He lives with his creativity in high gear."
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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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Ted Shackelford
"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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"Dogs are my favorite people."
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Richard Dean Anderson
"Dogs are my favorite people."
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"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."
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Peter Davison
"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."
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"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"
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Colin Mochrie
"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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Tony Curtis
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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Lisa Whelchel
"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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Lance Loud
"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you."
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Sam Elliott
"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you."
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"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give."
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Steve Guttenberg
"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give."
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"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."
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John C. Reilly
"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."
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"I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself."
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Tony Shalhoub
"I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself."
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"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."
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Geoffrey Rush
"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."
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"I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act."
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John Goodman
"I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act."
Act,
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"Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful."
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Christopher Meloni
"Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful."
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"I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other."
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Robert Pattinson
"I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other."
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"I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening."
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DeForest Kelley
"I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening."
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"Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one."
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Michael Madsen
"Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one."
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"Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French."
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Cyril Cusack
"Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French."
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"I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease."
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Jeremy Piven
"I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease."
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"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."
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Stephen Collins
"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."
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"I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great."
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Olivier Martinez
"I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great."
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"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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Colin Baker
"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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"Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece."
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Devon Sawa
"Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece."
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"Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business."
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Hank Azaria
"Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business."
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"I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do."
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Scott Caan
"I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do."
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"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action."
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Jeremy Renner
"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action."
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"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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Jack Bowman
"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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Mark Goddard
"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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"I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin."
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Scott Wolf
"I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin."
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"People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace."
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F. Murray Abraham
"People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace."
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