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"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
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Ben Kingsley
"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
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"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
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Jack Lemmon
"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
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James Earl Jones
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
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"I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?"
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Tim Robbins
"I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?"
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"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
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Alan Thicke
"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
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Christian Bale
"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
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"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
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Conrad Veidt
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
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"When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous."
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Edward Furlong
"When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous."
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"I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."
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George M. Cohan
"I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."
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"Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know."
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Marc Wallice
"Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know."
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"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."
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Tom Berenger
"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."
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"Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine."
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Cillian Murphy
"Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine."
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"I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years."
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David Cross
"I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years."
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"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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Denzel Washington
"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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"Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves."
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Brian Austin Green
"Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves."
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"I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico."
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John Amos
"I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico."
Oil,
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"I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type."
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Gary Cole
"I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type."
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"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."
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Tom Cruise
"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."
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"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."
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Jack Nicholson
"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."
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"And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists."
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Paul Robeson
"And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists."
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"You can never spend enough time with children."
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Dwayne Hickman
"You can never spend enough time with children."
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"I lost my parents when I was fairly young."
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Craig T. Nelson
"I lost my parents when I was fairly young."
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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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Daniel Day Lewis
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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"You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you."
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Dwayne Johnson
"You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you."
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"You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions."
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Adam Rich
"You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions."
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"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
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Edgar Bergen
"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
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"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track."
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Bill Bixby
"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track."
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"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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Orson Welles
"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
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Michael Pitt
"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
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"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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Leonard Nimoy
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."
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Dabney Coleman
"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."
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"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."
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Spalding Gray
"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."
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"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car."
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Jack Lemmon
"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car."
Car,
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"Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me."
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Lawrence Tierney
"Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me."
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"I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything."
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Shemar Moore
"I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything."
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"Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
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Liam Neeson
"Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
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"I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball."
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Dennis Quaid
"I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball."
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"If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best."
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Gene Hackman
"If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best."
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"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."
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Shia LaBeouf
"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."
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"Trying to understand women is a tall order period."
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Rick Schroder
"Trying to understand women is a tall order period."
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"I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids."
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Rob Lowe
"I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids."
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"I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death."
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Raj Kapoor
"I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death."
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"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."
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Eli Wallach
"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."
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"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
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Thomas Haden Church
"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
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"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
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Bruce McCulloch
"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
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"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."
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Bruce Dern
"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."
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"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
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Anthony Hopkins
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
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"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
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Jack Bowman
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
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"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."
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Jeff Goldblum
"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."
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"I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus."
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Chi McBride
"I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus."
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