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"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies."
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Clive Owen
"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies."
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"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."
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Michael Richards
"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."
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"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."
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James Earl Jones
"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."
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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."
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Joe Lando
"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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Dom DeLuise
"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film."
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Peter Sarsgaard
"But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film."
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"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
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Robert Duvall
"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
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"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."
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Michael Zaslow
"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."
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"I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore."
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Luke Perry
"I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore."
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"So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life."
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Ben Vereen
"So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life."
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"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
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Griffin Dunne
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
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"Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised."
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Larry David
"Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised."
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"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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Anthony Quinn
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."
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Martin Sheen
"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."
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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
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Alan Alda
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
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"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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Marlon Brando
"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."
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John Malkovich
"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."
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"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
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Artie Lange
"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
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"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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Corey Feldman
"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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"The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved."
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Corey Feldman
"The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved."
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"The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball."
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James Lafferty
"The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball."
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"The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!"
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Christopher Atkins
"The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!"
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"I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in."
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Oliver Reed
"I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in."
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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
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Bruce Lee
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
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"Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew."
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Ewan McGregor
"Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew."
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"I manage to hide in my movies."
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Liev Schreiber
"I manage to hide in my movies."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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Harrison Ford
"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."
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Bruce Davison
"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."
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"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."
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Nick Mancuso
"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."
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"I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes."
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Corbin Bleu
"I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes."
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"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."
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David Ogden Stiers
"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."
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"When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now."
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Ed Harris
"When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now."
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"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."
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William Christopher
"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."
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"I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers."
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Adam Rickitt
"I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers."
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"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."
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Brandon Routh
"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."
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"If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!"
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Dwayne Hickman
"If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!"
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"I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh."
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Mark Roberts
"I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh."
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"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
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Ryan Reynolds
"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
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"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."
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John Turturro
"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."
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"I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going."
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Shawn Ashmore
"I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going."
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"I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time."
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Ed Harris
"I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time."
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"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."
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Roberto Benigni
"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."
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"We are treated with such generosity of spirit."
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Michael Zaslow
"We are treated with such generosity of spirit."
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"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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Ben Kingsley
"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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Ted Danson
"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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"I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history."
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Humphrey Bogart
"I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history."
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"To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one."
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Benicio Del Toro
"To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one."
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"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
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Charlton Heston
"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
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"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."
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Ian McKellen
"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."
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"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film."
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David Carradine
"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film."
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