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"It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that."
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Blair Underwood
"It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that."
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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Boris Kodjoe
"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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Jonathan Frakes
"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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"It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry."
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Cesar Romero
"It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry."
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"Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time."
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Frankie Avalon
"Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time."
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"I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak."
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David Boreanaz
"I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak."
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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James Van Der Beek
"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it."
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David Carradine
"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it."
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"God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too."
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Bob Balaban
"God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too."
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"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change."
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John Hawkes
"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change."
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"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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Harry Hamlin
"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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"We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing."
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Verne Troyer
"We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing."
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"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
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Thomas Lennon
"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
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"Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives."
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Morris Chestnut
"Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives."
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"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie."
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Scott Bakula
"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie."
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"I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."
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Larry David
"I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."
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"You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life."
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Ethan Embry
"You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life."
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"I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment."
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Matt Damon
"I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment."
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"And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them."
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Jesse Eisenberg
"And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them."
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"I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do."
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Tom Selleck
"I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do."
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"I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys."
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Bruce Willis
"I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys."
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"I really didn't think about song writing."
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Adam Rich
"I really didn't think about song writing."
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"I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla."
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Jason Bateman
"I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla."
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"Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard."
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Barry Pepper
"Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard."
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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."
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Joel Gretsch
"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."
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"Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies."
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Owen Wilson
"Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies."
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"Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it."
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Bernie Mac
"Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it."
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"I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past."
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Tyrese Gibson
"I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past."
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"We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid."
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Woody Harrelson
"We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid."
War,
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"Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why."
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Bill Bixby
"Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why."
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"I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A."
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Jerry Orbach
"I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A."
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"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."
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Glenn Quinn
"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."
End,
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"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater."
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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Harry Hamlin
"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting."
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Tab Hunter
"People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting."
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"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
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Alec Baldwin
"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
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Kyle Chandler
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
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"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
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Danny Kaye
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
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"I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know."
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David Thewlis
"I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know."
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"I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on."
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Haley Joel Osment
"I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on."
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"Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!"
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Buddy Ebsen
"Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!"
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"It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me."
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Wallace Shawn
"It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me."
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"If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy."
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Joe Flanigan
"If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy."
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"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
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Jon Voight
"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
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"My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin."
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Desmond Llewelyn
"My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin."
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"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
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Gabriel Byrne
"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
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"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
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Eddie Marsan
"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
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"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
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Dominic Chianese
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
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"I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others."
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Joe Flanigan
"I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others."
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"He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation."
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Jared Leto
"He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation."
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