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"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."
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Chuck Norris
"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."
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"The first perk of theatre is the girls."
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James Spader
"The first perk of theatre is the girls."
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"In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived."
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Burt Ward
"In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived."
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"Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license."
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Christopher Plummer
"Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license."
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"Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath."
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David Thewlis
"Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath."
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"My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness."
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Gregory Peck
"My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness."
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"I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies."
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Donal Logue
"I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies."
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"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
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Michael Caine
"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
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"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
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"If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief."
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"I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character."
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Robert Englund
"I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character."
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"What you invest your time in defines who you are."
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Todd Duncan
"What you invest your time in defines who you are."
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"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."
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Robert Downey, Jr.
"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."
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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."
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Robert Vaughn
"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."
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"You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role."
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Oliver Platt
"You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role."
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"I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version."
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Orlando Bloom
"I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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Patrick Macnee
"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
"The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do."
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"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
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Kent McCord
"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
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"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club."
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Harold Ramis
"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club."
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"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to."
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Thayer David
"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to."
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"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now."
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"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."
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Anthony Quinn
"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."
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"Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."
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Haley Joel Osment
"Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."
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"A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts."
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Brandon Lee
"A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts."
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"Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective."
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Adam Rich
"Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective."
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"Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!"
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Andy Dick
"Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!"
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"I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash."
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Jason Statham
"I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash."
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"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
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Conrad Veidt
"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
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"I've always wanted to be an action figure."
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Jake Lloyd
"I've always wanted to be an action figure."
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"I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life."
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Mark Harmon
"I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life."
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"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me."
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Larry David
"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me."
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"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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Stanley Tucci
"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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"This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well."
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Robert Pattinson
"This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well."
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"We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!"
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Daniel Craig
"We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!"
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"The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest."
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Dixie Carter
"The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest."
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"What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people."
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Ted Shackelford
"What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people."
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"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards."
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Hugh Dancy
"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards."
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"Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them."
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Denis Leary
"Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them."
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"Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie."
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Shawn Ashmore
"Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie."
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"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
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Alan Bates
"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
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"I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much."
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Alan Ladd
"I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much."
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"We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success."
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Rob Lowe
"We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success."
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"Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all."
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David Carradine
"Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all."
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"I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience."
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Skeet Ulrich
"I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience."
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"Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California."
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Tommy Bond
"Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California."
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"If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country."
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Danny Glover
"If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country."
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"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
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Kent McCord
"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
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"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent."
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Jai Rodriguez
"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent."
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"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left."
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Chris Cooper
"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left."
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