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"I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people."
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Ron Silver
"I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people."
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"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."
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Zachary Scott
"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."
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"I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese."
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Sessue Hayakawa
"I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese."
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"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
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Dennis Farina
"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
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"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing."
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Jason Statham
"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing."
Oil,
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"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
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Oliver Reed
"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
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"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
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"That's where the money is, on the road."
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Aries Spears
"That's where the money is, on the road."
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"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
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Eli Wallach
"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
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"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response."
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Al Lewis
"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response."
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"If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best."
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Rob Morrow
"If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best."
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"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
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John C. Reilly
"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
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"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."
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Mickey Rourke
"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."
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"I love life because what more is there."
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Anthony Hopkins
"I love life because what more is there."
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"I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original."
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Brendan Fraser
"I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original."
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"Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy."
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Bradley Whitford
"Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy."
Job,
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"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."
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Keanu Reeves
"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."
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"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."
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Charlie Hunnam
"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."
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"I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC."
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Joe Lando
"I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC."
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"We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world."
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Dirk Benedict
"We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world."
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"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
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Ben Stein
"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
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"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."
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Danny DeVito
"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."
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"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."
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James Earl Jones
"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."
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"The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'"
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Daniel Craig
"The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'"
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"In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around."
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David Cross
"In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around."
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"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."
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Don Johnson
"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."
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"If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS."
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Corbin Bernsen
"If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS."
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"The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it."
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Brad Dourif
"The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it."
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"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
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Colin Firth
"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
Day,
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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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Orson Welles
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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"It's nice to be asked to do good projects."
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Dougray Scott
"It's nice to be asked to do good projects."
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"High Noon is a pretty corny movie."
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Robert Duvall
"High Noon is a pretty corny movie."
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"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
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Ralph Fiennes
"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
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"You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me."
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Patrick Stewart
"You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me."
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"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."
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Joshua Leonard
"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."
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"When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy."
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John Glover
"When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy."
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"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
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Chris Burke
"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
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"I want to show how strong I am from my roots."
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Edward James Olmos
"I want to show how strong I am from my roots."
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"When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera."
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William H. Macy
"When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera."
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"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express."
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John Astin
"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express."
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"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
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Anthony Quinn
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
Now,
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"I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie."
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Thomas Haden Church
"I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie."
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"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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Edward James Olmos
"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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"I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it."
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Zac Efron
"I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it."
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"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
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Jason Schwartzman
"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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Ewan McGregor
"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."
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Matthew McGrory
"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."
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"I'm here to make sense."
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Edward James Olmos
"I'm here to make sense."
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."
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Max Beerbohm
"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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Joe Lando
"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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