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"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."
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Patrick Swayze
"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."
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"In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed."
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Robert Powell
"In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed."
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"Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season."
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George Takei
"Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season."
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"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others."
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Rod Taylor
"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others."
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"Evil changes everybody!"
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"Evil changes everybody!"
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"If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence."
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David McCallum
"If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence."
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"The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months."
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Treat Williams
"The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months."
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"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."
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Glenn Ford
"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."
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"I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward."
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Dustin Diamond
"I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward."
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"The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up."
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Luke Wilson
"The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up."
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"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
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Robert Towne
"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
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"The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue."
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Omar Epps
"The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue."
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"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
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Peter Davison
"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
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"Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something."
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Jon Voight
"Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something."
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"I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show."
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Danny Masterson
"I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show."
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"I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading."
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Jason Mewes
"I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading."
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"I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate."
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Kenny Baker
"I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate."
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"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
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"Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters."
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Robert Englund
"Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters."
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"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."
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Ray Liotta
"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."
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"We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles."
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Bill Scott
"We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles."
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"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."
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"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
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Peter Ustinov
"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
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"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human."
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Joe Morton
"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human."
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"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press."
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Kiefer Sutherland
"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press."
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"Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great."
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Gedde Watanabe
"Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great."
Act,
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"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
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"It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen."
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Forest Whitaker
"It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen."
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"What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it."
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Matthew Ashford
"What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it."
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"You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this."
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Garry Marshall
"You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this."
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"My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'"
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Hugh Jackman
"My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'"
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"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head."
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Antonio Banderas
"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head."
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"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."
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Jack Bowman
"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."
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"I don't like movies that are morally simple."
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Paul Mazursky
"I don't like movies that are morally simple."
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"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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Michael Pitt
"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes."
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Joshua Jackson
"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes."
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"Acting scares me."
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John Lurie
"Acting scares me."
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"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
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F. Murray Abraham
"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
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"I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet."
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Larry Hagman
"I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet."
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"I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television."
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Robert Englund
"I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television."
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"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
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Richard Attenborough
"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
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"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."
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Sidney Poitier
"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."
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"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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Stephen Rea
"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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"I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy."
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Bruce McCulloch
"I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy."
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"Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can."
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Chad Lowe
"Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can."
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"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
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Kenneth Williams
"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
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"I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable."
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Matthew Ashford
"I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable."
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"There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever."
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Joe Mantegna
"There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever."
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"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God."
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Robert Duvall
"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God."
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"I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen."
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Donald Sutherland
"I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen."
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