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"In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you."
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Bill Paxton
"In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you."
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"I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself."
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James Franco
"I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself."
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"I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!"
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George Takei
"I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!"
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"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."
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Kurt Russell
"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."
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"The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested."
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Richard Gere
"The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested."
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"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
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Theodore Bikel
"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
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"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."
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Klaus Kinski
"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."
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"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow."
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John Wayne
"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow."
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"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote."
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Stanley Tucci
"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote."
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"The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!"
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Tony Danza
"The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!"
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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Andre Braugher
"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad."
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Adam Sandler
"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad."
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"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."
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Billy Bob Thornton
"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."
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"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
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Michael Douglas
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
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"I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life."
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Derek Jacobi
"I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life."
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"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."
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Morgan Freeman
"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."
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"Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory."
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Curtis Armstrong
"Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory."
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"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
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Sylvester Stallone
"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
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"I had to prove myself to a lot of different people."
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Gerard Butler
"I had to prove myself to a lot of different people."
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"Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset."
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M. Emmet Walsh
"Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset."
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"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."
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William Hurt
"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."
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"Our first priority is our kids."
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Kirk Cameron
"Our first priority is our kids."
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"I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do."
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Don Johnson
"I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do."
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"Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children."
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Dirk Benedict
"Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children."
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"Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go."
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Matthew McGrory
"Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go."
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"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."
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Carroll O'Connor
"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."
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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
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Will Rogers
"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
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"And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union."
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Warren Beatty
"And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union."
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"The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living."
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Christopher Walken
"The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living."
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"In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community."
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Jimmy Smits
"In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community."
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"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect."
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Shia LaBeouf
"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect."
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"I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous."
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Vincent Schiavelli
"I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous."
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"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
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Will Rogers
"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
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"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
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Johnny Depp
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
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"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
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Martin Short
"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
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"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
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Martin Mull
"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
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"With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique."
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Mark Goddard
"With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique."
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"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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Martin Freeman
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
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Richard Grimes
"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
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"The competition is pretty rough these days."
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Tony Randall
"The competition is pretty rough these days."
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"My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives."
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Nicholas Lea
"My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives."
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"Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes."
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Warren Beatty
"Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes."
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"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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Clint Eastwood
"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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"15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff."
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"I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan."
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Corey Feldman
"I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan."
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"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."
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Patrick Stewart
"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."
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"I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know."
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Harry Shearer
"I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know."
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"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."
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Hugo Weaving
"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."
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"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
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Judd Nelson
"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
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"Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both."
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Carroll O'Connor
"Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both."
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