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"We're all born bald, baby."
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Telly Savalas
"We're all born bald, baby."
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"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."
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Keanu Reeves
"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."
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"I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are."
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Donnie Wahlberg
"I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are."
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"If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join."
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Andrew Shue
"If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join."
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"What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do."
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Danny DeVito
"What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do."
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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
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Theodore Bikel
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
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"I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years."
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Harry Shearer
"I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years."
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"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
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Erich von Stroheim
"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
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"I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting."
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Eddie Albert
"I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting."
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"The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low."
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Parker Stevenson
"The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low."
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"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
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"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
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Theodore Bikel
"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
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"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."
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Brendan Fraser
"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."
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"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
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Morgan Freeman
"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
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"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."
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"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."
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Aries Spears
"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."
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"The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh."
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Leslie Nielsen
"The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh."
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"I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here."
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Harry Anderson
"I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here."
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"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me."
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David Friedman
"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me."
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"Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you."
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Donald Sutherland
"Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you."
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"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."
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Stephen Collins
"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."
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"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."
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Oliver Reed
"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."
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"I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not."
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Matthew Perry
"I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not."
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"I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do."
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Patrick Warburton
"I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do."
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"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
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Martin Short
"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
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"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
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Jackie Chan
"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
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"My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night."
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Brion James
"My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night."
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"There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse."
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Charlie Sheen
"There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse."
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"To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation."
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Harvey Keitel
"To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation."
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"Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up."
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Scott Wolf
"Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up."
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"My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow."
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Peter Gallagher
"My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow."
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"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes."
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Joel Gretsch
"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes."
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"First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment."
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Maximilian Schell
"First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment."
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"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."
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Drew Carey
"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."
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"I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group."
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Gerard Depardieu
"I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group."
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"There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art."
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Danny Aiello
"There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art."
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"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
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Dick Van Dyke
"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
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"I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up."
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Adam Arkin
"I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up."
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"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
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Gregory Harrison
"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
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"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream."
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David Hasselhoff
"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream."
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"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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James Franco
"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."
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Jason Behr
"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."
Fun,
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"I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan."
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Judd Nelson
"I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan."
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"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."
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Joshua Leonard
"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."
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"It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals."
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DeForest Kelley
"It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals."
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"Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting."
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Charlie Sheen
"Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting."
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"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
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Alan Bates
"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
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"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things."
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Danny DeVito
"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things."
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"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."
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Charles Bronson
"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."
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"A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'"
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Gene Wilder
"A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'"
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