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"Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!"
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Paul Darrow
"Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!"
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"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."
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Ben Affleck
"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."
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"The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him."
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Donal Logue
"The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him."
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"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe."
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Robert Englund
"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe."
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"Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get."
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Jack Nicholson
"Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get."
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"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
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Paul Bettany
"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
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"Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life."
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Jake Gyllenhaal
"Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life."
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"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."
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Ray Liotta
"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."
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"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."
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Charles Laughton
"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."
Eye,
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"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
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Kiefer Sutherland
"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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Will Friedle
"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction."
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Tim Conway
"I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction."
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"We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy."
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James Denton
"We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy."
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"I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money."
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Fred Ward
"I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money."
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"I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate."
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James Denton
"I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate."
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"Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny."
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Harold Ramis
"Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny."
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"I would have had fun doing just about anything."
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Clancy Brown
"I would have had fun doing just about anything."
Fun,
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"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
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Conrad Veidt
"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
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"There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life."
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Michael Douglas
"There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life."
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"When the day's work is over, it's over."
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John Turturro
"When the day's work is over, it's over."
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"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."
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Jeffrey Tambor
"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."
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"I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings."
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Dick Van Patten
"I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings."
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"I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad."
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Sam Elliott
"I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad."
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"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica."
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Danny Glover
"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica."
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"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere."
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Christopher Parker
"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere."
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"Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing."
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Bruce Willis
"Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing."
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"I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out."
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Josh Holloway
"I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out."
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"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding."
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Edward Albert
"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding."
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"I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important."
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Eric McCormack
"I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important."
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"I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid."
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Andrew Shue
"I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid."
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"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people."
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James Rado
"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people."
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"I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents."
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David Keith
"I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents."
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"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it."
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Noah Taylor
"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it."
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"One of the joys about acting is researching."
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William Sanderson
"One of the joys about acting is researching."
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"You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film."
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Herbert Lom
"You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film."
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"I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life."
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Thomas Jane
"I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life."
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"Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record."
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Bruce McCulloch
"Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record."
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"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of."
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Glenn Ford
"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of."
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"Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes."
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Desi Arnaz
"Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes."
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"I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera."
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Thomas Jane
"I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera."
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"That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people."
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Clint Walker
"That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people."
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"It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you."
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you."
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"I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team."
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Tim Conway
"I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team."
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"We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe."
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Maximilian Schell
"We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe."
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"You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to."
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Richard Dean Anderson
"You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to."
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"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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George Cole
"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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"They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows."
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Adam Garcia
"They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows."
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"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."
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Patrick Swayze
"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."
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"The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had."
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Bruce Dern
"The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had."
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"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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Montgomery Clift
"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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