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"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do."
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Adam Sandler
"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do."
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"When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her."
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Orlando Bloom
"When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her."
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"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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Jason Alexander
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
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Mark Hamill
"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
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"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."
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Mickey Rourke
"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."
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"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."
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Peter Fonda
"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."
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"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
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Shawn Ashmore
"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
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"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely."
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Hugo Weaving
"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely."
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"I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions."
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Corbin Bleu
"I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions."
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"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
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David Strathairn
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
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"It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain."
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Charlie Sheen
"It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain."
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"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."
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Jeremy Irons
"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."
Now,
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"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
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"You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing."
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Charles S. Dutton
"You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing."
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"At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it."
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Jai Rodriguez
"At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it."
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"Education is the vaccine for violence."
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Edward James Olmos
"Education is the vaccine for violence."
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"If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses."
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Julian Sands
"If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses."
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"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."
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Anthony Anderson
"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."
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"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."
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Dominic Monaghan
"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."
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"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
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Alan Thicke
"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
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"If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me."
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Willie Aames
"If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me."
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"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue."
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Bradley Whitford
"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue."
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"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."
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William H. Macy
"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."
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"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
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Beau Bridges
"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
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"Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer."
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Marla Sokoloff
"Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer."
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"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
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Nick Mancuso
"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
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"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
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Jeremy Irons
"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
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"I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess."
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Gregory Peck
"I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess."
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"We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's."
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Rupert Grint
"We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's."
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"The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state."
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Harold Lloyd
"The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state."
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"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
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Robert Pattinson
"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
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"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
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Judd Nelson
"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
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"I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me."
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Tom Cruise
"I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me."
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"In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being."
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Paul Robeson
"In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being."
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"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."
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Rod Taylor
"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."
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"Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited."
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Richard Roxburgh
"Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited."
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"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."
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Bob Geldof
"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."
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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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Richard Gere
"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
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Rick Moranis
"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
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"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
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James Woods
"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
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"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
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Michael Gambon
"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
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"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."
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Johnny Depp
"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."
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"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee."
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Burt Lancaster
"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee."
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"Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel."
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Max von Sydow
"Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel."
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"I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts."
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Mark Roberts
"I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts."
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"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."
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Sean Bean
"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."
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"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
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Christopher Reeve
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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Robert Redford
"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years."
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Andreas Katsulas
"Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years."
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"Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!"
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Bill Owen
"Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!"
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