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"Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad."
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Maximilian Schell
"Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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Don Johnson
"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies."
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Clive Owen
"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies."
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"I make time to write."
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Stanley Tucci
"I make time to write."
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"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."
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John Cleese
"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."
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"I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now."
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Bill Mumy
"I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now."
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"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."
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Joe Mantegna
"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."
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"Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them."
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Steve Kanaly
"Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them."
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"I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me."
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Ken Curtis
"I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me."
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"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."
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Adrian Edmondson
"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."
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"I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say."
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Michael C. Hall
"I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say."
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"I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day."
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Dwight Schultz
"I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day."
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"Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
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Aaron Eckhart
"Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
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"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
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Bela Lugosi
"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
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"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."
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Frank Langella
"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."
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"Actors are responsible to the people we play."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
"Actors are responsible to the people we play."
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"Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on."
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Derek Jacobi
"Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on."
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"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"
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John Cusack
"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"
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"That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element."
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"The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do."
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Peter O'Toole
"The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do."
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"Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it."
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Brian Austin Green
"Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it."
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"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
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Shia LaBeouf
"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
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"Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job."
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David Caruso
"Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job."
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"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
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Steve Guttenberg
"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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Tom Wilkinson
"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground."
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Dustin Diamond
"Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground."
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"Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business."
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Robert Stack
"Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business."
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"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."
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Charles S. Dutton
"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."
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"I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house."
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Wil Wheaton
"I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house."
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"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
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Griffin Dunne
"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
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"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."
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Jason Patric
"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."
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"I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22."
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Richard Briers
"I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22."
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"Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind."
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Jay Mohr
"Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind."
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"I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination."
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Chris Cooper
"I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination."
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"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
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Dougray Scott
"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
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"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
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Stephen Rea
"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
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"The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal."
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Kieran Culkin
"The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal."
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"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere."
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Eli Wallach
"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere."
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"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
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Dominic Chianese
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
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"I'm living what I always wanted to do."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"I'm living what I always wanted to do."
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"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
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Martin Mull
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
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"Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out."
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Humphrey Bogart
"Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out."
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"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got."
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Will Rogers
"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got."
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"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
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"Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved."
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Steve Kanaly
"Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved."
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"Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder."
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Tom Hiddleston
"Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder."
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"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."
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Christopher Atkins
"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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Peter Boyle
"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world."
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Jason Schwartzman
"Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world."
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"What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb."
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Jeff Bridges
"What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb."
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