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"Politics is applesauce."
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Will Rogers
"Politics is applesauce."
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"I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying."
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Michael Landon
"I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying."
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"I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?"
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?"
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"Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures."
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Richard Widmark
"Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures."
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"I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy."
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Brion James
"I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy."
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"They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history."
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John Amos
"They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history."
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"The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon."
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Dustin Diamond
"The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon."
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"What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves."
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Alan Rickman
"What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves."
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"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again."
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Christopher Walken
"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again."
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"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."
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Albert Finney
"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."
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"This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection."
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Morgan Freeman
"This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection."
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"It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it."
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Max von Sydow
"It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it."
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"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."
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Alan Rickman
"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."
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"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
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Hugh Grant
"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
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"I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids."
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Chuck Norris
"I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids."
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"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."
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River Phoenix
"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."
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"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
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Harvey Korman
"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
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"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
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Corey Feldman
"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
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"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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Jonathan Frid
"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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"It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all."
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Brian Austin Green
"It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all."
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"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."
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Charlie Sheen
"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."
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"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
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Jeremy London
"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
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"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."
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Edward G. Robinson
"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
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Harrison Ford
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
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"My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move."
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Alfred Molina
"My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move."
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"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
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Russell Crowe
"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
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"I have respect for beer."
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Russell Crowe
"I have respect for beer."
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"Blame is for God and small children."
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Dustin Hoffman
"Blame is for God and small children."
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"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker."
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Cillian Murphy
"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker."
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"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie."
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Harold Ramis
"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie."
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"She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine."
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Fritz Weaver
"She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine."
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"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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Michael Shanks
"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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"But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant."
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Richard Masur
"But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant."
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"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast."
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Tom Cruise
"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast."
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"I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame."
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Michael C. Hall
"I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame."
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"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on."
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George Clooney
"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on."
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"My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself."
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Balthazar Getty
"My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself."
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"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."
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Ivan Reitman
"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."
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"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
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David McCallum
"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
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"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."
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Johnny Depp
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."
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"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."
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Paul Robeson
"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."
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"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
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Vin Diesel
"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
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"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
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Christian Bale
"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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Marlon Brando
"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."
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Jeffrey Jones
"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."
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"Leadership demands that we make tough choices."
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Alan Autry
"Leadership demands that we make tough choices."
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"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
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James Dean
"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
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"It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids."
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Lucas Grabeel
"It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids."
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"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."
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Jeff Bridges
"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."
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"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
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David Prowse
"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
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