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"I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people."
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James Woods
"I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people."
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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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Richard Pryor
"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."
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Bill Paxton
"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."
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"It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol."
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John Forsythe
"It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol."
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"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."
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Jimmy Smits
"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."
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"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
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Morgan Freeman
"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
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"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
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David Strathairn
"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
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"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."
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Brendan Fraser
"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."
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"All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that."
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Morgan Freeman
"All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that."
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"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent."
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Pat Morita
"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent."
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
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Martin Mull
"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
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"I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey."
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Jeremy London
"I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey."
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"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."
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Carroll O'Connor
"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."
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"What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better."
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Campbell Scott
"What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better."
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"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."
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Bradley Whitford
"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."
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"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."
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Walter Matthau
"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."
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"Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me."
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Richard Gere
"Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me."
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"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
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Timothy West
"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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Carroll O'Connor
"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right."
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Tim Roth
"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right."
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"I like the way the old Toyotas look."
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Judd Nelson
"I like the way the old Toyotas look."
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"In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves."
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Dirk Benedict
"In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves."
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"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
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Wilford Brimley
"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
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"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
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Oliver Reed
"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
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"The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists."
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Boris Kodjoe
"The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists."
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"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."
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Richard O'Brien
"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."
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"I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada."
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Bruce McCulloch
"I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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Ralph Fiennes
"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life."
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Robert Redford
"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life."
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"Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence."
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Max von Sydow
"Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence."
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"I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half."
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Marc Wallice
"I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half."
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"When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection."
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Richard Gere
"When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection."
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"My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill."
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Tom Felton
"My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill."
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"Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do."
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Jason Biggs
"Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do."
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"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."
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"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
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Ewan McGregor
"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
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"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."
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Fisher Stevens
"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."
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"Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap."
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Gil Gerard
"Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap."
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"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."
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Broderick Crawford
"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."
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"While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile."
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Alan Autry
"While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile."
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"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well."
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Patrick Stewart
"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well."
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"I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited."
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Patrick Stewart
"I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited."
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"Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television."
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Tony Danza
"Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television."
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"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
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Richard Pryor
"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
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"I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected."
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Kevin Spacey
"I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected."
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"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."
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Graham Roberts
"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."
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"Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director."
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Peter Mayhew
"Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director."
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"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
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Christopher Eccleston
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
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"My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year."
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Ted Shackelford
"My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year."
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"I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?"
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Jake Gyllenhaal
"I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?"
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