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"The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work."
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Steve Burns
"The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work."
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"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."
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Simon Callow
"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."
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"Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product."
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Mark Roberts
"Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product."
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"I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff."
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Shane West
"I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff."
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"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
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John Barrymore
"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
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"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."
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Will Estes
"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."
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"My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands."
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Jason Statham
"My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands."
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"I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit."
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John C. McGinley
"I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit."
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"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."
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John Cusack
"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."
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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."
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James Earl Jones
"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."
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"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."
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Charlie Chaplin
"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."
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"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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Christian Slater
"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
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Leo McKern
"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
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"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
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"I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying."
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Michael Landon
"I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying."
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"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
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James Daly
"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
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"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
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Steve Kanaly
"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
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"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view."
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Michael York
"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view."
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"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."
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Thomas Jane
"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."
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"I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution."
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James Daly
"I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution."
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"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
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Chris Burke
"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
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"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
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Ron Perlman
"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
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"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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"What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves."
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Alan Rickman
"What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves."
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"I think people really want to be happy."
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John Astin
"I think people really want to be happy."
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"It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me."
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Luke Perry
"It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me."
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"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap."
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Shia LaBeouf
"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap."
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"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."
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Edward Burns
"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."
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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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Peter Ustinov
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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Carroll O'Connor
"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
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Peter Ustinov
"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
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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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"What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance."
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Eddie Marsan
"What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance."
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"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
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Paul M. Glaser
"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
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"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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James Caan
"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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Will Smith
"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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James Earl Jones
"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
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Eli Wallach
"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
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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 was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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Liev Schreiber
"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
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Morgan Freeman
"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
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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 think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
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Jeremy Brett
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
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"Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun."
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Dom DeLuise
"Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun."
Fun,
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"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
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Hugh Grant
"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
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"There are people who said he killed over a hundred men. Historical fact doesn't corroborate one hundred men."
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Keith Carradine
"There are people who said he killed over a hundred men. Historical fact doesn't corroborate one hundred men."
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"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."
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John Malkovich
"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."
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"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
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Edward Norton
"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
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"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
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Bob Geldof
"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
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"Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along."
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Richard Widmark
"Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along."
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