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"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
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Jack Bowman
"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
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"I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue."
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Josh Holloway
"I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue."
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"I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal."
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William Kempe
"I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal."
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"Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult."
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Eriq La Salle
"Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult."
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"Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season."
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Jerry Orbach
"Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season."
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"One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh."
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D. L. Hughley
"One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh."
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"When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love."
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Orlando Bloom
"When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love."
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"Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart."
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Jason Marsden
"Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart."
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"I'm just a true Irish boy at heart."
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Colin Farrell
"I'm just a true Irish boy at heart."
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"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
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Leon Askin
"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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Scott Foley
"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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"What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts."
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Jean Claude Van Damme
"What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts."
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"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
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Clint Eastwood
"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
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"But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort."
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Frank Langella
"But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort."
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"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"
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John Astin
"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"
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"I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me."
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D. L. Hughley
"I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me."
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"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."
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Mandy Patinkin
"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."
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"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."
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David Hyde Pierce
"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."
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"But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference."
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Eriq La Salle
"But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference."
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"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."
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Mark Strong
"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."
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"Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course."
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John Gielgud
"Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course."
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"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here."
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Mel Smith
"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here."
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"I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic."
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Will Estes
"I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic."
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"I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location."
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Bob Balaban
"I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location."
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"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."
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Peter Coyote
"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."
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"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
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Dustin Hoffman
"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
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"If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice."
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John Turturro
"If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice."
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"You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back."
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Jason Segel
"You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back."
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"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."
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Carlos Alazraqui
"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."
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"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other."
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David Duchovny
"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other."
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"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
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Dick Van Dyke
"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
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"Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!"
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Robert Stack
"Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!"
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"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."
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Jack Black
"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."
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"My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids."
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Burt Ward
"My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids."
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"Spry is not a look, spry is behavior."
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Robert Culp
"Spry is not a look, spry is behavior."
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"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."
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Bob Balaban
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."
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"It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money."
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Hal Sparks
"It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money."
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"You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself."
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Vince Vaughn
"You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself."
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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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Chow Yun Fat
"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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"In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors."
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John Turturro
"In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors."
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"One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me."
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Glenn Ford
"One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me."
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"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."
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James D'arcy
"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."
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"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
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Tony Goldwyn
"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
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"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
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Verne Troyer
"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
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"I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard."
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Dwayne Hickman
"I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard."
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"There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line."
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Bruce Campbell
"There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line."
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"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there."
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Jason Marsden
"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there."
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"An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare."
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Glenn Ford
"An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare."
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"There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!"
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Scott Wolf
"There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!"
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"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."
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Hugh Jackman
"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."
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