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Quotes by Actor

"My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work."
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Jason Dohring
"My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work."
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"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
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Robert Reed
"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
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"I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something."
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Mike Farrell
"I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something."
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"The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people."
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Bob Odenkirk
"The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people."
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"I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers."
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Joseph Fiennes
"I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers."
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"I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned."
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Clayton Moore
"I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned."
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"I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something."
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Steve Harvey
"I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something."
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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."
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Christopher Judge
"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."
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"What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real."
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Jean Claude Van Damme
"What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real."
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"I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor."
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Jonny Lee Miller
"I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor."
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"I'm a nudist at heart."
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Christopher Meloni
"I'm a nudist at heart."
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"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."
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Ray Milland
"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."
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"I like doing business in a black city."
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Yaphet Kotto
"I like doing business in a black city."
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"A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me."
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Rudolph Valentino
"A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me."
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"When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers."
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James Coco
"When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers."
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"No one invited you to this business. You invited yourself."
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Eddie Foy
"No one invited you to this business. You invited yourself."
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"It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes."
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Billy West
"It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes."
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"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right."
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Steve Harvey
"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right."
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"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."
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Scott Bakula
"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."
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"If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better."
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Jeremy Jackson
"If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better."
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"I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try."
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Chill Wills
"I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try."
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"I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work."
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Michael Emerson
"I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work."
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"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know."
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Bob Odenkirk
"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know."
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"I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination."
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Breckin Meyer
"I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination."
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"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
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Will Rogers
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
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"Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit."
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Clifton Davis
"Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit."
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"I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters."
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Brandon Cruz
"I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters."
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"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."
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Nicholas Brendon
"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."
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"All literature is political."
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LeVar Burton
"All literature is political."
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"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."
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Will Rogers
"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."
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"Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time."
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Alex D. Linz
"Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time."
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"That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense."
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Jonathan Harris
"That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense."
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"If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married."
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Kirk Douglas
"If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married."
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"My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?"
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Anthony Edwards
"My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?"
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"As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success."
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Lewis Hallam
"As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success."
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"Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better."
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Scott Patterson
"Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better."
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"There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place."
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John Saxon
"There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place."
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"I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open."
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Benjamin Bratt
"I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open."
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"For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression."
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Billy Zane
"For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression."
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"You get ideas from other people all the time."
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Jared Harris
"You get ideas from other people all the time."
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"Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes."
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Timothy Hutton
"Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes."
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"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in."
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Morgan Freeman
"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in."
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"This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air."
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Christopher Meloni
"This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air."
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"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
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Herbert Marshall
"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
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"I've given no thought to moving to America at all."
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Eric Bana
"I've given no thought to moving to America at all."
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"It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something."
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Don Cheadle
"It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something."
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"I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape."
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Josh Ryan Evans
"I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape."
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"Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me."
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Larry Wilcox
"Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me."
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"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."
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John Spencer
"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."
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"When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does."
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Kirk Douglas
"When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does."
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