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"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."
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Parker Stevenson
"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."
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"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."
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Craig T. Nelson
"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."
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"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
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David Walliams
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
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"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
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David Hyde Pierce
"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
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"I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me."
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Kevin Costner
"I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me."
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"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
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Paul M. Glaser
"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
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"My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor."
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Keith David
"My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor."
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"Not being able to work would make me very unhappy."
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Ian Hart
"Not being able to work would make me very unhappy."
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"I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating."
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Kieran Culkin
"I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating."
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"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."
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Stacy Keach
"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."
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"What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing."
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Vin Diesel
"What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing."
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"And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over."
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Edward James Olmos
"And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over."
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"I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh."
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Will Estes
"I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh."
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"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years."
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Eli Wallach
"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years."
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"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."
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Richard Fleeshman
"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."
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"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget."
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Peter Davison
"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget."
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"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like."
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Olivier Martinez
"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like."
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"Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful."
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Will Friedle
"Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful."
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"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
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Will Smith
"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
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"I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way."
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"I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way."
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"My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers."
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Olivier Martinez
"My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers."
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"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"
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Pat Morita
"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"
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"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."
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Hugh Jackman
"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."
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"I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful."
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Jason Biggs
"I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful."
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"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
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Jason Schwartzman
"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
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"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
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Hugo Weaving
"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
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"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."
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Dougray Scott
"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."
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"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."
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Tom Brown
"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."
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"Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird."
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Shane West
"Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird."
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"My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!"
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Corin Nemec
"My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!"
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"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."
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Martin Short
"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."
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"I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times."
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Robert Guillaume
"I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times."
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"It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other."
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David Morse
"It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other."
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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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Theodore Bikel
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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"I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat."
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Gary Sinise
"I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat."
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"The success of the film is down to the crew."
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Dougray Scott
"The success of the film is down to the crew."
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"I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting."
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Gregory Harrison
"I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting."
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"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
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Martin Sheen
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
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"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with."
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Michael Zaslow
"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with."
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"Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all."
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Jeremy Irons
"Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all."
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"If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new."
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Russell Johnson
"If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new."
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"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
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Kyle Schmid
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
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"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."
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Tom Cruise
"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."
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"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
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William H. Macy
"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
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"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
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Robert Duvall
"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
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"One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career."
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Joe Pantoliano
"One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career."
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"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler."
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Art Carney
"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler."
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"I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time."
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Harry Dean Stanton
"I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time."
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"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
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Andre Braugher
"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
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"I've never outgrown my childhood."
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David McCallum
"I've never outgrown my childhood."
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