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"Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it."
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Paul Giamatti
"Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it."
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"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."
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Gabriel Mann
"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."
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"I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat."
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Will Rogers
"I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat."
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"Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way."
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Ted Levine
"Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way."
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"I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around."
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Adam West
"I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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Lionel Stander
"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
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George Raft
"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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Will Rogers
"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again."
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Clayton Moore
"I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again."
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"David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work."
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Bob Odenkirk
"David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work."
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"I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field."
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Scott Bakula
"I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field."
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"Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly."
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Brad Renfro
"Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly."
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"I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work."
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Rutger Hauer
"I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work."
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"I think love and beauty are what life is all about."
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John Derek
"I think love and beauty are what life is all about."
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"Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in."
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Jared Harris
"Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in."
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"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."
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Will Rogers
"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."
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"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."
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Will Rogers
"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."
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"I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time."
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David Canary
"I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time."
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"I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."
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William Baldwin
"I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."
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"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them."
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Scott Baio
"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them."
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"I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor."
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Mario Lopez
"I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor."
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"We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list."
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Brad Garrett
"We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list."
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"As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money."
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Matt Damon
"As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money."
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"I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!"
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Scott Bakula
"I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!"
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"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."
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Danny Kaye
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."
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"I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it."
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Wallace Shawn
"I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it."
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"I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age."
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Jean Claude Van Damme
"I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age."
Age,
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"I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different."
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Peter Noone
"I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different."
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"That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients."
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Jeremy Jackson
"That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients."
Old,
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"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
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"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
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Morgan Freeman
"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
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"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."
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Stephen Root
"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."
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"I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean."
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Jimmy Dean
"I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean."
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"People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal."
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Timothy Olyphant
"People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal."
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"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials."
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Will Rogers
"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials."
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"Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you."
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Chill Wills
"Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you."
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"I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life."
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Kirk Douglas
"I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life."
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"I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization."
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Noah Taylor
"I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization."
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"Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry."
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Michael Emerson
"Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry."
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"Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top."
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Jimmy Dean
"Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top."
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"I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long."
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Dennis Crosby
"I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long."
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"I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close."
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Benjamin Bratt
"I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close."
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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."
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Will Rogers
"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."
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"I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training."
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Benjamin Bratt
"I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training."
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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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Alex D. Linz
"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"I try to be the best man I can for the day."
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James Caviezel
"I try to be the best man I can for the day."
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."
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Irwin Corey
"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."
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"Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia."
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Vittorio Gassman
"Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia."
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"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
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Will Rogers
"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
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"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."
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Will Rogers
"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."
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