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"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."
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James Earl Jones
"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."
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"I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals."
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Norm MacDonald
"I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals."
Gay,
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"I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy."
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Robert Pattinson
"I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy."
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"Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling."
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Leonardo DiCaprio
"Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling."
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"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
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Peter Mayhew
"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
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"How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing."
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Christian Slater
"How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing."
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"My first career was as a coach and a teacher."
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David Friedman
"My first career was as a coach and a teacher."
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"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
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John Lone
"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
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"I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style."
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Ben Affleck
"I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style."
Gay,
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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Steve Buscemi
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly."
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"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly."
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"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies."
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Mel Gibson
"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies."
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"I believed in God my whole life."
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Andy Dick
"I believed in God my whole life."
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"My choices were never wrong."
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Anthony Anderson
"My choices were never wrong."
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"The past has to inform the present."
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John Turturro
"The past has to inform the present."
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"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
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Alan Thicke
"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
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"Friends take up time, and I didn't have time."
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Richard Pryor
"Friends take up time, and I didn't have time."
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"In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey."
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Clint Eastwood
"In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey."
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"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
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Morgan Freeman
"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
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"My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air."
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Martin Milner
"My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air."
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"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
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Peter Mayhew
"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."
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John Glover
"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."
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"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
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Colin Firth
"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
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"I lost my parents when I was fairly young."
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Craig T. Nelson
"I lost my parents when I was fairly young."
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"The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14."
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Edward Furlong
"The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14."
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"I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left."
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Marc Wallice
"I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left."
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"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."
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Tommy Rettig
"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."
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"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
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David Caruso
"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
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"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
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Will Smith
"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
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"Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career."
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Mark Ruffalo
"Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career."
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"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
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Marlon Brando
"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
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"I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life."
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Ajay Devgan
"I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life."
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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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Dwight Schultz
"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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"I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama."
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Martin Milner
"I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama."
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"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
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Dan Castellaneta
"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
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"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."
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John Lithgow
"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."
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"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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Burt Lancaster
"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
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Charlie Chaplin
"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
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"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."
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Dwight Schultz
"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."
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"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
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Ralph Fiennes
"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
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"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
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Max Beerbohm
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
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"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
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Keanu Reeves
"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
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"It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature."
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Matthew McGrory
"It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature."
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"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."
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Bruce Davison
"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."
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"If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens."
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Donnie Wahlberg
"If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens."
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"Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche."
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Joshua Leonard
"Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche."
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"A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off."
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Adam Rich
"A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off."
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"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does."
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Harry Anderson
"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does."
Now,
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"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time."
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Andrew McCarthy
"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time."
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"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
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Tom Wopat
"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
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