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"I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances."
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Hugo Weaving
"I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances."
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"I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily."
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Morris Chestnut
"I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily."
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"It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about."
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Dwight Schultz
"It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about."
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"If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time."
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Wentworth Miller
"If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time."
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"Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call."
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Ronny Cox
"Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call."
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"I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!"
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Zac Efron
"I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!"
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"I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact."
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Hugh Grant
"I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact."
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"It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of."
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Paul Walker
"It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of."
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"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
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Armand Assante
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
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"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
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Robert Urich
"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
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"I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it."
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Ryan Gosling
"I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it."
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"Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices."
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Michael Fassbender
"Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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Henry Winkler
"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it."
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Tom Kenny
"He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it."
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"I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story."
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Rick Fox
"I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story."
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"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company."
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Eriq La Salle
"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company."
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"I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football."
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Stephen Chow
"I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football."
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"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
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McLean Stevenson
"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
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"I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working."
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Ashton Kutcher
"I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working."
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"I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed."
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Elijah Wood
"I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed."
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"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical."
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Woody Harrelson
"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical."
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"Some people do better on their own. I don't."
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George Peppard
"Some people do better on their own. I don't."
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"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
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Klaus Kinski
"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
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"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day."
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Edward Albert
"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day."
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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."
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David Keith
"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."
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"I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!"
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Jonathan Brandis
"I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!"
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"I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa."
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Keith David
"I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa."
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"Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy."
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Noah Wyle
"Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy."
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"Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy."
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Jake Gyllenhaal
"Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy."
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"That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other."
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Dennis Quaid
"That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other."
Job,
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"I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs."
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Omar Epps
"I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs."
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"The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten."
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Jon Voight
"The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten."
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"When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career."
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Tommy Kirk
"When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career."
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"The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth."
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Alex Winter
"The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth."
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"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not."
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Akshay Kumar
"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not."
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"I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you."
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Ryan Gosling
"I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you."
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"As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect."
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Steve Kanaly
"As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect."
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"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material."
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J. T. Walsh
"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material."
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"You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home."
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Jon Lovitz
"You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home."
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"I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five."
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Ron Moody
"I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five."
Age,
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"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."
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Don Johnson
"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."
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"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."
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Martin Sheen
"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."
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"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
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Griffin Dunne
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
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"Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid."
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Donal Logue
"Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid."
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"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."
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David Duchovny
"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."
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"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."
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Kevin Spacey
"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."
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"Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare."
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Ed Asner
"Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare."
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"The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death."
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Howard Keel
"The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death."
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"I didn't know a damn thing about style."
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Michael Bergin
"I didn't know a damn thing about style."
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"I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film."
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John Hurt
"I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film."
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