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"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."
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Robert Blake
"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."
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"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."
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Tim Robbins
"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."
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"There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good."
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Joe Lando
"There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good."
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"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."
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Adrian Edmondson
"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."
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"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."
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Derek Jacobi
"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."
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"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
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James Caan
"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
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"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
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Liam Neeson
"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
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"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."
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George Clooney
"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."
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"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."
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Ewan McGregor
"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."
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"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."
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Michael Berryman
"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."
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"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
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Mel Gibson
"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
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"Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that."
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Edward Furlong
"Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that."
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."
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Will Rogers
"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."
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"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."
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Erich von Stroheim
"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."
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"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."
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James Earl Jones
"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."
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"If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production."
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Will Rogers
"If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production."
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"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
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Devon Sawa
"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
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"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune."
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Charlie Chaplin
"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune."
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"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."
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Dirk Benedict
"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."
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"There's never been a parent in my life."
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Shia LaBeouf
"There's never been a parent in my life."
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"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."
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James Earl Jones
"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."
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"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
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Garry Marshall
"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
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"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
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James Franco
"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
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"I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy."
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Brendan Fraser
"I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy."
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"Dancing is a sweat job."
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Fred Astaire
"Dancing is a sweat job."
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"Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that."
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Beau Bridges
"Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that."
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"I'm an action fanatic."
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Noah Hathaway
"I'm an action fanatic."
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"You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'"
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Giovanni Ribisi
"You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'"
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"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
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Theodore Bikel
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
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"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
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Colin Firth
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
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"My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties."
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Gary Busey
"My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties."
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"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."
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Martin Mull
"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."
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"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."
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Ian McDiarmid
"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."
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"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
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Julian McMahon
"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
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"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
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Ryan Reynolds
"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
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"First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III."
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Beau Bridges
"First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III."
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"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."
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Judd Nelson
"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."
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"I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there."
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Lee Majors
"I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there."
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"Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?"
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Patrick Stewart
"Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?"
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"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
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Anthony Hopkins
"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
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"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
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Martin Mull
"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
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"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
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Steve Guttenberg
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
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"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."
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Dirk Benedict
"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."
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"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better."
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Morgan Freeman
"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better."
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"We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us."
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Matthew Fox
"We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us."
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"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"
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Marc Singer
"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"
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"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."
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Jeremy Irons
"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."
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"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced."
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James Lafferty
"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced."
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"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
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Bob Geldof
"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
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"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
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John Goodman
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
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