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"He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer."
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Simon Callow
"He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer."
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"Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive."
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Brandon Thomas
"Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive."
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"I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it."
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Brendan Fehr
"I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it."
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"I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you."
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Tom Sizemore
"I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you."
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"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her."
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Michael J. Fox
"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her."
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"I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable."
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Jesse Eisenberg
"I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable."
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"My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats."
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Juliet Mills
"My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats."
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"You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life."
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Tom Kenny
"You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life."
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"I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do."
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Shuler Hensley
"I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do."
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"I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while."
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Ray Liotta
"I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while."
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"They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable."
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Barry Pepper
"They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable."
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"Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not."
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"I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities."
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Chris Burke
"I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities."
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"I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents."
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Cody Linley
"I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents."
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"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."
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Josh Holloway
"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."
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"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."
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Frankie Avalon
"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."
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"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
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Armand Assante
"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
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"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."
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Adam Baldwin
"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."
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"The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?"
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Eriq La Salle
"The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?"
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"People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film."
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Ray Romano
"People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film."
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"Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad."
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Lavrenti Lopes
"Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad."
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"When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting."
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Sam Neill
"When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting."
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"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
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Dick Van Dyke
"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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Danny Glover
"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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Morris Chestnut
"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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"Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again."
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Jake Gyllenhaal
"Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again."
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"Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend."
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Jason Ritter
"Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend."
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"Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other."
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Brandon Thomas
"Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other."
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"I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions."
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Ron Moody
"I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions."
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"If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?"
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Judd Hirsch
"If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?"
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"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
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Chico Marx
"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
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"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
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Howard Keel
"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
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"So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence."
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Eriq La Salle
"So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence."
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"If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him."
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Wil Wheaton
"If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him."
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"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people."
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Larry Hagman
"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people."
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"I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway."
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Ben McKenzie
"I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway."
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"Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle."
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Ron Moody
"Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle."
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"My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours."
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Adam Baldwin
"My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours."
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"I know I work quite hard at making people like me."
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Timothy Spall
"I know I work quite hard at making people like me."
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"I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one."
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Mario Lopez
"I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one."
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"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."
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Fred Melamed
"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."
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"Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed."
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Josh Holloway
"Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed."
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"If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move."
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Antonio Banderas
"If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move."
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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 lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot."
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James Spader
"I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot."
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"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."
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Robert Ryan
"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."
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"It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked."
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Jared Leto
"It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked."
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"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come."
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Greg Akcelrod
"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come."
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"The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male."
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Bill Bixby
"The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male."
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"The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life."
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Ray Romano
"The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life."
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