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"In live stage, the actor lives."
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Peter Boyle
"In live stage, the actor lives."
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"I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people."
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Eddie Albert
"I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people."
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"I didn't study acting."
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Ray Walston
"I didn't study acting."
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"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."
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Adam Garcia
"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."
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"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance."
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Harvey Keitel
"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance."
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"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."
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David Hyde Pierce
"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."
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"It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle."
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Matt Dillon
"It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle."
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"I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it."
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Dennis Franz
"I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it."
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"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air."
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Dick York
"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air."
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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."
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Rob Lowe
"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."
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"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
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Christian Bale
"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
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"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
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Luke Wilson
"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
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"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it."
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Ajay Naidu
"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it."
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"I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do."
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Jerry Orbach
"I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do."
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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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Jimmy Stewart
"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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"I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing."
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Ethan Suplee
"I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing."
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"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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Frank Langella
"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence."
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Shemar Moore
"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence."
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"I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing."
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Donal Logue
"I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing."
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"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
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John Leeson
"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
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"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."
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Rutger Hauer
"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."
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"Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old."
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Keith David
"Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old."
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"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
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Tommy Rettig
"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
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"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"
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Derek Jacobi
"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"
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"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself."
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Colin Farrell
"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself."
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"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle."
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Harvey Keitel
"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle."
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"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
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"I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!"
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Dennis Franz
"I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!"
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"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."
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Robert Vaughn
"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."
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"I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it."
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Ted Lange
"I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it."
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"If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now."
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Ray Romano
"If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now."
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"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest."
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Kent McCord
"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest."
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"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
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Stanley Tucci
"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
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"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."
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Bob Saget
"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."
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"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
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Tom Berenger
"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
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"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
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Tom Hanks
"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
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"You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!"
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Josh Hartnett
"You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!"
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"I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride."
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Richard Widmark
"I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride."
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"If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?"
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Elijah Wood
"If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?"
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"I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall."
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Tab Hunter
"I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall."
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"I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely."
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Joe Lando
"I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely."
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"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
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Dennis Quaid
"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
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"Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life."
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Will Friedle
"Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life."
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"I am basically a religious man."
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Cyril Cusack
"I am basically a religious man."
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"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents."
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Jude Law
"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents."
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"I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups."
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"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."
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Donald Pleasence
"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."
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"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."
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"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff."
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Matthew Broderick
"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff."
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"Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right."
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Matthew Perry
"Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right."
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