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"One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts."
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Dennis Franz
"One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts."
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"It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all."
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Dixie Carter
"It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all."
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"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist."
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Danny Glover
"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist."
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"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."
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"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."
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Tom Sizemore
"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."
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"I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier."
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Tony Randall
"I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier."
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"I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer."
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Larry Hagman
"I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer."
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"Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time."
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Dwayne Hickman
"Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time."
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"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
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Jon Favreau
"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
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"Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words."
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Richard Widmark
"Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words."
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"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role."
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"Life's too short to be working with divas."
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Richard O'Brien
"Life's too short to be working with divas."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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Devon Sawa
"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show."
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Matthew Ashford
"I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show."
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"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."
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Boris Kodjoe
"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."
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"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
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Tim Robbins
"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
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"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."
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James Denton
"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."
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"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."
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Hugh Jackman
"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."
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"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."
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Dennis Hopper
"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."
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"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly."
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Liam Neeson
"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly."
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"For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them."
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Michael Douglas
"For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them."
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"His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you."
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Oliver Hudson
"His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you."
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"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."
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Lance Loud
"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."
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"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."
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"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."
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Lee Tergesen
"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."
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"I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected."
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Milo Ventimiglia
"I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected."
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"I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years."
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David Hyde Pierce
"I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years."
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"Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe."
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James Spader
"Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe."
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"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
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Sidney Poitier
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
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"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
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Robert Towne
"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
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"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
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Robert Vaughn
"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
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"If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."
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Scott Caan
"If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."
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"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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Tim Robbins
"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day."
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Robert Duvall
"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day."
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"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
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Alan Rickman
"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
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"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."
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Harold Ramis
"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."
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"I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off."
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Tom Berenger
"I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off."
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"You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice."
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James MacArthur
"You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice."
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"Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all."
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Jason Schwartzman
"Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all."
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"It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive."
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Bob Saget
"It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive."
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"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it."
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John Cusack
"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it."
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"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."
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Richard Dean Anderson
"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."
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"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."
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"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats."
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Will Rogers
"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats."
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"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers."
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Harold Ramis
"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers."
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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."
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Gregory Harrison
"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."
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"Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad."
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John Corbett
"Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad."
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"The day my son was born my life changed completely."
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Treat Williams
"The day my son was born my life changed completely."
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"I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot."
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Bill Mumy
"I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot."
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"The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie."
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Casey Affleck
"The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie."
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