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"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."
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Michael Douglas
"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."
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"There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea."
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Peter Noone
"There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea."
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"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
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Casey Affleck
"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
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"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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Bill Scott
"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
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Steve Guttenberg
"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
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"George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them."
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Cesar Romero
"George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them."
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"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
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Ashton Kutcher
"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
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"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going."
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Sean Connery
"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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Orlando Bloom
"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."
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Emilio Estevez
"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."
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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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"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."
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Denzel Washington
"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."
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"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
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Dwayne Hickman
"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
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"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
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Richard Pryor
"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
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"When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off."
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Drew Carey
"When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off."
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"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this."
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Paul Robeson
"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this."
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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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Morgan Freeman
"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
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Ray Liotta
"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
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"I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81."
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John Lurie
"I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81."
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"Conservative's the last thing I am."
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Ewan McGregor
"Conservative's the last thing I am."
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"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."
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Jon Favreau
"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."
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"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
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James Dean
"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
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"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."
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Dennis Weaver
"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."
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"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"
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William Shatner
"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"
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"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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Matt LeBlanc
"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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"I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation."
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Christian Slater
"I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation."
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"It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong."
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Bill Scott
"It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong."
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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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"This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well."
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Sean William Scott
"This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well."
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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
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Peter Ustinov
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
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"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."
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Harrison Ford
"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."
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"With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite."
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Bill Pullman
"With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite."
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"I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me."
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Danny DeVito
"I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me."
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"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
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Dwayne Hickman
"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
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"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."
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Broderick Crawford
"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."
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"Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid."
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Dwayne Hickman
"Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid."
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"Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one."
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Michael Rosenbaum
"Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one."
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"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."
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Steve Burns
"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."
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"I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one."
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Tony Shalhoub
"I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one."
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"I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer."
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Tim Robbins
"I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer."
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"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
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Rick Moranis
"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
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"I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with."
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Denis Leary
"I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with."
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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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Burt Lancaster
"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
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Ajay Naidu
"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
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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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"If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence."
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James Wood
"If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence."
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"It's an important fact of life, war."
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Jeff Goldblum
"It's an important fact of life, war."
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"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."
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John C. Reilly
"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."
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"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."
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Macaulay Culkin
"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."
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"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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Gil Gerard
"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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