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"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
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Liev Schreiber
"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
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"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
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Ryan Reynolds
"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
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"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."
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John Thaw
"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."
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"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him."
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Ed Harris
"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him."
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"Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids."
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Hal Sparks
"Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids."
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"I had no blood relatives till I made some."
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Andy Dick
"I had no blood relatives till I made some."
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"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
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Michael Landon
"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
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"When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things."
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"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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Morgan Freeman
"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."
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Tony Shalhoub
"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."
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"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
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Victor Garber
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
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"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."
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Eric Bogosian
"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."
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"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
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Alan Alda
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
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"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
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Martin Mull
"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
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"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
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Steve Guttenberg
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
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"When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."
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Morgan Freeman
"When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."
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"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."
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Matthew Modine
"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."
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"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid."
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Denis Leary
"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid."
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"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
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Jeremy Irons
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
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"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."
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Derek Jacobi
"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."
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"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
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Gregory Harrison
"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
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"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
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Harrison Ford
"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
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"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."
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Harvey Keitel
"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."
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"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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Mark Rylance
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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"Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor."
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Dixie Carter
"Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor."
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"I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe."
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Ed Harris
"I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe."
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"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
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Ewan McGregor
"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
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"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."
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Josh Lucas
"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."
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"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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Bill Murray
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
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Charlie Sheen
"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
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"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
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Pierce Brosnan
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
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"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
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Donal Logue
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
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"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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Matthew Modine
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."
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Leslie Nielsen
"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."
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"Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it."
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Alan Thicke
"Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it."
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"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
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Ed Harris
"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
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"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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Ricardo Montalban
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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"Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success."
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Alan Autry
"Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success."
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"If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me."
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Ed Harris
"If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me."
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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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Dean Martin
"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
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Paul Mazursky
"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
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"We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes."
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Colin Mochrie
"We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes."
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"I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends."
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Macaulay Culkin
"I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends."
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"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."
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Viggo Mortensen
"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."
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"The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome."
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Vincent Schiavelli
"The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome."
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"Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty."
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Lance Loud
"Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty."
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"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped."
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Verne Troyer
"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped."
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"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
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Will Rogers
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
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"I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good."
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Glenn Ford
"I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good."
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