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"I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it."

"I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it."

Eugene Levy, Canadian Actor

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"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Body, Exercise, Spirit, Stress

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"When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America."

"When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America."

Warren Beatty, American Actor

Movies, America, Media

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"I'm what you call a Depression sailor."

"I'm what you call a Depression sailor."

Ernest Borgnine, American Actor

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"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."

"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."

Mark Ruffalo, American Actor

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"I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head."

"I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head."

Jeremy Irons, English Actor

Guitar, Holidays, School, Traveling

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"I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach."

"I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

Peter Coyote, American Actor

Corporate, Prostitution

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"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

Laurence Olivier, English Actor

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"I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote."

"I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

Work, America, Future, Kids

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"Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting."

"Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting."

Tom Skerritt, American Actor

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"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."

"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."

Jonathan Frid, Canadian Actor

Family, Friends, Tension

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"I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them."

"I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

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"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."

"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."

William Hurt, American Actor

Finance, Financial, Being, Energy, Mediocrity

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"And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here."

"And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here."

Dean Stockwell, American Actor

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"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."

"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."

James McAvoy, Scottish Actor

Teen, Film, Fire, Play

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"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."

"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

Actor, Film, Television, Theatre

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"But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working."

"But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working."

M. Emmet Walsh, American Actor

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"I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!"

"I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!"

Gil Gerard, American Actor

Son, Daughter, Old, Punishment

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"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."

"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."

David Clennon, American Actor

Class, Climate, Country, Germany

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"I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down."

"I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down."

Jeffrey Wright, American Actor

Ocean, Vacation, Visit

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"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

Max Beerbohm, English Actor

Conscience, Cowards

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"I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry."

"I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry."

Lee Majors, American Actor

Thought, Heaven

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"But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition."

"But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition."

Thomas Haden Church, American Actor

People, Opportunity, Thinking

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"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food."

"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food."

Erich von Stroheim, Austrian Actor

Food, Americans, Baby, Day

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"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."

"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."

Paul Hogan, Australian Actor

Beginning, Cricket, Needs, Solution

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"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."

"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."

Orson Welles, American Actor

Politicians, Popularity, Senate

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"Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds."

"Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds."

Billy Bob Thornton, American Actor

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"I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."

"I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."

Heath Ledger, Australian Actor

Day, Future, Now, Past

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"I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me."

"I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me."

Mark Harmon, American Actor

Time, Beginning, First

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"I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."

"I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."

Steven Seagal, American Actor

Sex, Day, Symbol

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"I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me."

"I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me."

Ron Silver, American Actor

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"My biggest problem is retaining the exact information."

"My biggest problem is retaining the exact information."

David Cross, American Actor

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"I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit."

"I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

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"I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension."

"I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension."

Bela Lugosi, Austrian Actor

Food, Friends, Old

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"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."

"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."

Olivier Martinez, French Actor

Compromise, Fame, France, Want

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"As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway."

"As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway."

Daniel Craig, English Actor

Idea, Man, World

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"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

Nicholas Lea, Canadian Actor

Ideas, Character

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"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."

"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."

Kevin Bacon, American Actor

Movies, Fun, Hiring

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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"

"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"

Cary Grant, American Actor

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"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."

"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."

Nicolas Cage, American Actor

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"Just being hired by a great director is complimentary."

"Just being hired by a great director is complimentary."

Tom Skerritt, American Actor

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"I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing."

"I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing."

Bill Mumy, American Actor

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"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."

"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

54

"It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with."

"It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with."

Steve Carell, American Actor

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"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends."

"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends."

Christopher Knight, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Friends, Old, Public

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"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already."

"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already."

Andy Garcia, American Actor

Success, Talk, Want

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"By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger."

"By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger."

Randy Harrison, American Actor

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"There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem."

"There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

Life, Time, Work, Career

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"I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s."

"I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s."

Jay Hernandez, American Actor

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