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"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."
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Michael Shanks
"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."
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"You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him."
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Andy Garcia
"You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him."
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"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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Michael Douglas
"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
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John Astin
"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
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"Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story."
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Aaron Stanford
"Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story."
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"I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong."
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Greg Akcelrod
"I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong."
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"A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts."
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Omar Epps
"A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?"
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Danny Glover
"New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?"
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"My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful."
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Treat Williams
"My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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Frankie Muniz
"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head."
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Tom Selleck
"It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head."
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"Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself."
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Daniel Radcliffe
"Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself."
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"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
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Stephen Rea
"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
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"As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves."
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Ethan Suplee
"As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves."
God,
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"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."
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Stephen Rea
"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."
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"But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to."
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Woody Harrelson
"But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to."
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"This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them."
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Lionel Barrymore
"This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them."
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"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me."
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Michael J. Fox
"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me."
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"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
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Alan Bates
"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
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"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."
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Mark Ruffalo
"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."
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"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
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Alex Winter
"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
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"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
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Lance Loud
"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
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"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature."
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Kent McCord
"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature."
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"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together."
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Alan Rickman
"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together."
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"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."
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Steve Buscemi
"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."
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"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."
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"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."
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"Why would people spend good money to have my pants?"
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Shawn Ashmore
"Why would people spend good money to have my pants?"
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"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."
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Conrad Veidt
"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."
Eye,
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"If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for."
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Joe Mantegna
"If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for."
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"If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie."
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Taylor Lautner
"If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie."
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"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
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Peter Ustinov
"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
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"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year."
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Roger Moore
"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year."
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"I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think."
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Jeffrey Jones
"I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think."
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"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well."
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Jeffrey Jones
"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well."
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"STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive."
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George Takei
"STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive."
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"To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime."
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David Warner
"To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime."
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"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
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Joe Morton
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
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"I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'"
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Jon Voight
"I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'"
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"It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz."
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Stephen Dorff
"It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz."
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"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die."
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F. Murray Abraham
"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die."
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"And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment."
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Tony Shalhoub
"And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment."
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"I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field."
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Jay Mohr
"I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field."
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"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
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Nicolas Cage
"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
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"Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men."
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Gary Oldman
"Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men."
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"Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule."
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Tom Sizemore
"Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule."
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"So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake."
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Hugh Dancy
"So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake."
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"I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action."
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Morris Chestnut
"I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action."
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"The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people."
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Paul Robeson
"The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people."
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