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"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."
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Thayer David
"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."
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"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
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Tom Wilkinson
"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
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"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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Leslie Banks
"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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"I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit."
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Marion Ross
"I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit."
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"I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums."
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Peter O'Toole
"I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums."
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"Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema."
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Dirk Benedict
"Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema."
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"I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes."
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Henry Darrow
"I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes."
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"Work begets work."
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Brion James
"Work begets work."
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"People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk."
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Gary Oldman
"People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk."
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"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now."
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James Gandolfini
"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now."
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"Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me."
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Stephen Collins
"Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me."
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"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
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Albert Finney
"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
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"Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him."
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Kevin Bacon
"Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him."
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"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."
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William H. Macy
"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."
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"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
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Ryan Reynolds
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
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"I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year."
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Noah Hathaway
"I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year."
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"I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode."
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Steve Burns
"I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode."
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"But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless."
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Shia LaBeouf
"But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless."
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"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
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Colin Firth
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
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"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."
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Robert Towne
"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."
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"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
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John Cleese
"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
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"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."
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Harvey Korman
"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."
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"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
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Josh Lucas
"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
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"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
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Robert Towne
"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
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"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
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Ralph Richardson
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
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"I don't support violence, period."
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Edward James Olmos
"I don't support violence, period."
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"I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record."
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Jason Schwartzman
"I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record."
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"Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training."
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Christopher Walken
"Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training."
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"I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt."
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Robert Iler
"I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt."
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"The poorest people are the sweetest people."
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Denzel Washington
"The poorest people are the sweetest people."
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"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
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Lisa Whelchel
"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
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"I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college."
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Harry Dean Stanton
"I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college."
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"It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority."
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Gavin MacLeod
"It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority."
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"It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes."
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Tony Shalhoub
"It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes."
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"The world is full of more interesting things than my voice."
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Harvey Fierstein
"The world is full of more interesting things than my voice."
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"Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail."
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Dean Cain
"Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail."
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"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
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Liev Schreiber
"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
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"The best things in life are usually difficult."
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Dirk Benedict
"The best things in life are usually difficult."
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"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
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Channing Tatum
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
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"I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now."
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Parker Stevenson
"I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now."
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"I don't watch television."
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Ray Walston
"I don't watch television."
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"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
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Ewan McGregor
"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
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Michael Ironside
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
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"I didn't really have any interest in producing anything."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I didn't really have any interest in producing anything."
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"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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Morgan Freeman
"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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"Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it."
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Klaus Kinski
"Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it."
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"Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about."
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David Cross
"Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about."
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"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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Leon Askin
"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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Kenneth Branagh
"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"To sustain longevity, you have to evolve."
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Aries Spears
"To sustain longevity, you have to evolve."
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