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"Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it."
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Will Rogers
"Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it."
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"I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything."
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Harvey Fierstein
"I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything."
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"If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States."
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Will Smith
"If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States."
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"I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light."
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Ian Hart
"I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light."
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"In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things."
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Harvey Fierstein
"In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things."
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"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."
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Will Rogers
"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."
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"I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble."
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Bruce McCulloch
"I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble."
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"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."
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William Hurt
"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."
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"I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny."
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Rupert Grint
"I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny."
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"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."
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Joaquin Phoenix
"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."
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"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
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James McAvoy
"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
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"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
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Peter Ustinov
"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
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"But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that."
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Jim Coleman
"But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that."
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"Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"
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John Banner
"Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"
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"My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums."
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Jeremy London
"My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums."
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"I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny."
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Stephen Dorff
"I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny."
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"Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him."
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Casper Van Dien
"Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him."
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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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Christian Bale
"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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"I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact."
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Patrick Warburton
"I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact."
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"I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story."
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Rob Morrow
"I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story."
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"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
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Paul Hogan
"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
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"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."
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William Hurt
"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."
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"So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure."
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Jeremy Irons
"So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure."
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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
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Will Rogers
"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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Balthazar Getty
"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."
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Al Lewis
"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."
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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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"You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing."
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Charlie Sheen
"You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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Ted Lange
"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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"You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help."
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John Hawkes
"You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help."
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"I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity."
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Orlando Bloom
"I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity."
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"I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy."
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Gene Wilder
"I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy."
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"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
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Alex O'Loughlin
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
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"Most modern comedy is crap."
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Adrian Edmondson
"Most modern comedy is crap."
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"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls."
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Michael J. Fox
"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls."
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"I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person."
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George Clooney
"I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person."
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"One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair."
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Dan Castellaneta
"One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair."
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"We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath."
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Brad Dourif
"We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath."
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"They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse."
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Lisa Whelchel
"They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse."
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"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."
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Mark Rylance
"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."
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"An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."
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Marlon Brando
"An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."
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"I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more."
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Rick Schroder
"I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more."
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"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
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Nicholas Lea
"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
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"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
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Tom Skerritt
"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
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"I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds."
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Max von Sydow
"I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds."
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"Drugs scared me."
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Larry David
"Drugs scared me."
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"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."
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Ryan Stiles
"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."
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"I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker."
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George Eads
"I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker."
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"Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground."
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Rupert Grint
"Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground."
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"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."
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Charlton Heston
"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."
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