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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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"It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door."
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Kevin Sorbo
"It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door."
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"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."
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Rupert Grint
"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."
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"I was initially a leading man, but only on television."
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Gary Cole
"I was initially a leading man, but only on television."
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"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
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Donnie Yen
"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
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"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
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Colin Firth
"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
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"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way."
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Ivan Reitman
"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way."
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"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky."
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Ryan Reynolds
"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky."
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"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."
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Ben Stein
"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."
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"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
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Javier Bardem
"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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Morgan Freeman
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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"My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed."
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Ian Hart
"My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed."
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"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
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Theodore Bikel
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."
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Joe Mantegna
"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."
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"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect."
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Adam Sandler
"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect."
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"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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Brendan Fraser
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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Richard O'Brien
"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
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Michael Zaslow
"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
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"If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3."
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Ian McDiarmid
"If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3."
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"I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible."
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Beau Bridges
"I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible."
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"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."
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Joseph Bologna
"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."
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"I'm really good with fighting with my feet."
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Eric Roberts
"I'm really good with fighting with my feet."
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"There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there."
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Michael Richards
"There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there."
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"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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Denzel Washington
"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera."
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Harry Shearer
"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera."
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"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
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David Walliams
"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
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"Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing."
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"Prohibition is better than no liquor at all."
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Will Rogers
"Prohibition is better than no liquor at all."
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"What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love."
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Richard Gere
"What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love."
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"I'm pretty much a couch potato."
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Wentworth Miller
"I'm pretty much a couch potato."
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"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
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Stanley Tucci
"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
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"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."
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Jonathan Frid
"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."
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"I don't see all the movies that come out."
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Ray Walston
"I don't see all the movies that come out."
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"There were five writers on Blazing Saddles."
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Dom DeLuise
"There were five writers on Blazing Saddles."
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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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Theodore Bikel
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it."
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Roy Scheider
"Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it."
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"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful."
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Sylvester Stallone
"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful."
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"But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level."
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Jason Biggs
"But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level."
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"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
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Sam Waterston
"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
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"Filming is repetition and many takes."
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Max von Sydow
"Filming is repetition and many takes."
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"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it."
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Scott Caan
"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it."
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"There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do."
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Shawn Wayans
"There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do."
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"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."
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John Glover
"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."
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"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
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Bruce Lee
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
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"I started training for musicals since I was a boy."
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David Hasselhoff
"I started training for musicals since I was a boy."
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"Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?"
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Robbie Coltrane
"Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?"
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"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
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James Daly
"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
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"I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter."
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John Turturro
"I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter."
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"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
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George Takei
"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
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"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
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Sean Connery
"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
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