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"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."
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Kevin Costner
"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."
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"Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role."
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Jeremy London
"Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role."
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"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."
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William Hurt
"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."
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"I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway."
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Gary Cole
"I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway."
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"I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him."
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Rupert Grint
"I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him."
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"Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse."
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Tom Felton
"Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse."
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"I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over."
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Dick York
"I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over."
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"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."
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Nicholas Lea
"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."
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"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."
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Randy Harrison
"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."
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"I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways."
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Brendan Fraser
"I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways."
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"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."
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William H. Macy
"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."
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"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."
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Jeremy Irons
"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."
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"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."
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Eli Wallach
"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."
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"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."
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Jeremy Bulloch
"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."
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"Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress."
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Wayne Rogers
"Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress."
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"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
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Ajay Devgan
"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
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"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."
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William H. Macy
"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."
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"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
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Matthew Ashford
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
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"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
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John Leeson
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
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"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."
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Mark Rylance
"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."
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"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time."
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Eli Wallach
"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time."
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"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."
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George Clooney
"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."
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"I didn't intend to become an actor."
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Anthony Quinn
"I didn't intend to become an actor."
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"I don't want to do anything in bad taste."
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Mark Roberts
"I don't want to do anything in bad taste."
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"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with."
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Jeremy London
"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with."
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"I'm a 9/11 Republican."
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Ron Silver
"I'm a 9/11 Republican."
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"There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations."
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"For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country."
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Donnie Yen
"For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country."
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"You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education."
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Robert Vaughn
"You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education."
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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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Timothy West
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."
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Jim Coleman
"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."
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"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."
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Milo Ventimiglia
"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."
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"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
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Jeffrey Donovan
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
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"Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago."
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Liam Neeson
"Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago."
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"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
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Leonard Nimoy
"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
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"I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it."
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David Schwimmer
"I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it."
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"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
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Russell Crowe
"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
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"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."
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Ralph Fiennes
"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."
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"What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows."
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Martin Short
"What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows."
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"And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid."
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Bill Mumy
"And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid."
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"Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing."
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Christopher Meloni
"Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing."
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"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch."
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Wilford Brimley
"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch."
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"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."
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Tom Hanks
"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."
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"But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it."
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Oliver Reed
"But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it."
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"It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre."
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Robert Duvall
"It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre."
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"College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!"
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Rob Morrow
"College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!"
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"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
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Steve Guttenberg
"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
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"Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof."
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Erich von Stroheim
"Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof."
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"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
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Harrison Ford
"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
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"We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough."
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Harold Ramis
"We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough."
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