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Quotes by Actor

"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."
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Orson Welles
"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."
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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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Bruce Lee
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."
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Klaus Kinski
"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."
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"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
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Johnny Depp
"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
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James Earl Jones
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
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"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
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Denzel Washington
"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
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"My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me."
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Peter Krause
"My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me."
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"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."
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George Clooney
"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."
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"A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello."
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Tim Roth
"A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello."
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"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom."
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Christopher Walken
"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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Peter Davison
"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus."
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Harvey Fierstein
"It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus."
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"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."
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Charles Bronson
"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."
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"Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it."
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Robert Wagner
"Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it."
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"Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor."
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Shia LaBeouf
"Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor."
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"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."
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Thomas Jane
"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."
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"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
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Lance Loud
"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
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"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
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Bob Geldof
"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
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"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."
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Keanu Reeves
"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."
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"I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican."
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James Denton
"I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican."
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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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Dougray Scott
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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"I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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Robert Englund
"I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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"The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch."
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Harry Anderson
"The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch."
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"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"
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Tom Cruise
"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"
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"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
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Russell Crowe
"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
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"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."
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Javier Bardem
"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."
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"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."
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Harold Ramis
"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."
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"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
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Judd Nelson
"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
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"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
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Albert Finney
"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
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"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
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Johnny Depp
"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
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"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
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Kevin Bacon
"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
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"Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!"
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Michael McKean
"Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!"
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"Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me."
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James Daly
"Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me."
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"I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not."
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Joe Lando
"I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not."
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"Awe and respect are two different things."
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Oliver Reed
"Awe and respect are two different things."
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"Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star."
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Richard Pryor
"Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star."
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"I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps."
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Scott Foley
"I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps."
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"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost."
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Javier Bardem
"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost."
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"That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood."
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Warren Beatty
"That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood."
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"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."
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Gregory Hines
"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."
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"Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs."
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Lee Majors
"Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs."
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"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
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Leslie Nielsen
"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
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"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
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Charlie Chaplin
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
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"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."
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Beau Bridges
"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."
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"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."
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Cary Grant
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."
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"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."
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William Shatner
"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."
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"They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery."
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Omar Sharif
"They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery."
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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
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Theodore Bikel
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
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"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere."
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Shane West
"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere."
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"I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them."
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David Morse
"I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them."
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