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"I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything."
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Dick York
"I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything."
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"I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors."
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Jonathan Frakes
"I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors."
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"It's an odd world."
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Timothy Spall
"It's an odd world."
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"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day."
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Mark Strong
"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day."
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"And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money."
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Michael Patrick Jann
"And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money."
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"If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding."
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Tim Robbins
"If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding."
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"Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions."
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Tim Reid
"Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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John Malkovich
"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model."
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Lance Loud
"One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model."
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"I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot."
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Bruce McCulloch
"I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot."
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"You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free."
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Morris Chestnut
"You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free."
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"Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind."
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Tom Selleck
"Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind."
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"It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year."
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Peter O'Toole
"It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year."
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"So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award."
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Tony Randall
"So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award."
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"It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance."
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Richard Dreyfuss
"It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance."
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"I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood."
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Rip Torn
"I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood."
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"And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard."
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Artie Lange
"And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard."
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"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
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Drew Carey
"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
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"I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me."
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Humphrey Bogart
"I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me."
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"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
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Brandon Routh
"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
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"Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them."
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Ryan Phillippe
"Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them."
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"My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!"
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Jeffrey Tambor
"My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!"
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"Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres."
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Mark Goddard
"Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres."
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"What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content."
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Gabriel Byrne
"What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content."
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"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."
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Treat Williams
"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."
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"I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much."
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Scott Speedman
"I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much."
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"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."
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David Ogden Stiers
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."
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"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light."
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"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."
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Ajay Naidu
"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."
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"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it."
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Eli Wallach
"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it."
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"In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it."
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Terrence Howard
"In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it."
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"Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it."
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James Spader
"Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it."
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"We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas."
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Steve Kanaly
"We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas."
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"As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!"
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Jonathan Brandis
"As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!"
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"I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books."
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Simon Callow
"I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books."
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"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."
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Gavin MacLeod
"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."
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"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."
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Dennis Quaid
"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."
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"I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins."
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Mackenzie Astin
"I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins."
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"I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it."
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Corin Nemec
"I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it."
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"I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that."
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Adam Rich
"I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that."
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"One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned."
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Willem Dafoe
"One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned."
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"I will be always grateful to NBC."
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David Morse
"I will be always grateful to NBC."
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"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."
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Jonathan Frakes
"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."
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"I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is."
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Devon Sawa
"I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is."
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"I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors."
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John Turturro
"I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors."
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"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac."
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Ray Liotta
"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac."
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"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
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Sidney Poitier
"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
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"It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it."
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Corin Nemec
"It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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Frank Langella
"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes."
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Dustin Diamond
"Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes."
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