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"Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!"
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Burt Ward
"Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!"
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"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos."
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Jackie Gleason
"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos."
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"But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box."
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Bob Balaban
"But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box."
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"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining."
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Dwayne Johnson
"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining."
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"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back."
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Jack Bowman
"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back."
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"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
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James McAvoy
"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
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"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person."
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Eric Braeden
"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person."
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"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
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Stanley Tucci
"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
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"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger."
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Jack Nicholson
"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger."
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"I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity."
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Jeffrey Combs
"I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity."
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"Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy."
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Dom DeLuise
"Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy."
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"Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down."
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Barry Corbin
"Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down."
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"Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director."
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Tom Skerritt
"Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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Michael Caine
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"If it's good art, it's good."
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Kenneth Branagh
"If it's good art, it's good."
Art,
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"Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles."
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Robert Forster
"Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles."
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"I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up."
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Mark Harmon
"I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up."
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"My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin."
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Alex Winter
"My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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Dougray Scott
"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."
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Donald Pleasence
"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."
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"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage."
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Adam Rickitt
"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage."
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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Peter Ustinov
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"
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Corbin Bernsen
"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"
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"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."
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Eric Stoltz
"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."
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"I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man."
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Michael J. Fox
"I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man."
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"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."
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Tim Robbins
"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."
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"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could."
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Timothy West
"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
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Kiefer Sutherland
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
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"I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut."
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Josh Lucas
"I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut."
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"I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising."
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Mark Roberts
"I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising."
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"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."
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Al Lewis
"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."
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"I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country."
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Robert Duvall
"I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country."
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"I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan."
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Kirk Cameron
"I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan."
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"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
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Mickey Rooney
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
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"I jump at any chance to go back into theater."
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Taye Diggs
"I jump at any chance to go back into theater."
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"Kids today don't watch a black and white movie."
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Robert Englund
"Kids today don't watch a black and white movie."
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"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us."
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Leslie Banks
"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us."
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"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."
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Macaulay Culkin
"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."
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"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."
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Tom Cruise
"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."
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"What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached."
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Charles Bronson
"What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached."
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"I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it."
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Sam Worthington
"I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it."
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"I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters."
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John Krasinski
"I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters."
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"I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity."
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Keir Dullea
"I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity."
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"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
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Fisher Stevens
"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
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"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
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Aaron Eckhart
"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
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"As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment."
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Lance Loud
"As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment."
Car,
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"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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Bill Murray
"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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"What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
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Geoffrey Rush
"What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
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"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
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Kent McCord
"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
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"I wanted to grow up to be just like my father."
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Michael Bergin
"I wanted to grow up to be just like my father."
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