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"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
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Mark Rylance
"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
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"I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her."
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Cesar Romero
"I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her."
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"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
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Richard Pryor
"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
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"I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies."
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Robert De Niro
"I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies."
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"That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more."
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Michael McKean
"That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more."
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"I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?"
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Liam Neeson
"I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?"
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"We children learned responsibility automatically."
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James Earl Jones
"We children learned responsibility automatically."
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"Pain is temporary, film is forever."
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Michael J. Fox
"Pain is temporary, film is forever."
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"I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn."
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Orlando Bloom
"I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn."
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
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John Barrymore
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
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"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."
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David Friedman
"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."
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"You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera."
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Nicholas Lea
"You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera."
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"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."
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Harrison Ford
"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."
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"My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s."
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Warren Beatty
"My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s."
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"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."
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Dominic Monaghan
"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."
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"I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff."
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Joaquin Phoenix
"I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff."
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"I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties."
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Jeremy Renner
"I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties."
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"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."
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Mark Rylance
"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."
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"You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?"
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Johnny Knoxville
"You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?"
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"As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost."
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Harry von Zell
"As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost."
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"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
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Christopher Eccleston
"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
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"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team."
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Shia LaBeouf
"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team."
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"I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit."
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Dick York
"I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit."
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"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."
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Leslie Nielsen
"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."
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"Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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Morgan Freeman
"Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"
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George Clooney
"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"
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"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."
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Dennis Farina
"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."
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"A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes."
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Zac Efron
"A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes."
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"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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"Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'"
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Orlando Bloom
"Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'"
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"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"
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Nathan Lane
"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"
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"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."
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Sean Connery
"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."
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"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
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Daniel Day Lewis
"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
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"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."
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James Earl Jones
"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."
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"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
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Clint Eastwood
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
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"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
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Cyril Cusack
"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
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"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."
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Jeffrey Wright
"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."
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"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
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William Devane
"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
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"Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."
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George Clooney
"Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."
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"I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit."
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John C. McGinley
"I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit."
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"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."
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Brian Austin Green
"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."
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"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."
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Joe Mantegna
"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."
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"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
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Martin Short
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
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"You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself."
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Tom Welling
"You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself."
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"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
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Andrea Martin
"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
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"I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it."
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David Duchovny
"I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it."
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"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."
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James Earl Jones
"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."
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"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
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Theodore Bikel
"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
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"I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it."
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Omar Sharif
"I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it."
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"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
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Anthony Hopkins
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
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