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Quotes by Actor

"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
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Leonard Nimoy
"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
Ego,
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"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."
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Kevin Spacey
"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."
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"All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo."
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Robert Vaughn
"All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo."
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"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."
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Alan Thicke
"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."
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"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
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Harvey Korman
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
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"I've worked with some actors who can't act."
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Anthony Anderson
"I've worked with some actors who can't act."
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"I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home."
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James MacArthur
"I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home."
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"There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create."
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John Glover
"There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create."
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"But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was."
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Stephen Collins
"But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was."
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"My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood."
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Harry Shearer
"My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood."
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"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."
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William Powell
"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."
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"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
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Johnny Weissmuller
"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
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"I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door."
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Ian Hart
"I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door."
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"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done."
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Eli Wallach
"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done."
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"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."
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Kyle MacLachlan
"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."
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"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos."
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Bill Scott
"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos."
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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
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Dustin Hoffman
"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
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Humphrey Bogart
"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
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"No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around."
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Steve Guttenberg
"No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around."
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"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else."
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Josh Hartnett
"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else."
Lie,
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"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."
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Richard Gere
"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."
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"Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical."
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Jim Coleman
"Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical."
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"I believe that there is God in all of us."
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Michael Landon
"I believe that there is God in all of us."
God,
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"There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all."
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Nathan Lane
"There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all."
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"High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it."
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David Ogden Stiers
"High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it."
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"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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Eric Bogosian
"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."
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Bill Pullman
"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."
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"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."
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David Friedman
"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."
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"Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere."
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Edward James Olmos
"Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere."
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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."
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James Earl Jones
"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."
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"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."
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Dick York
"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."
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"I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever."
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Peter Krause
"I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever."
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"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
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"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."
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John Cleese
"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."
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"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."
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Jason Patric
"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."
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"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."
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Tom Cruise
"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."
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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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Paul Robeson
"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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"They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun."
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Anthony Anderson
"They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun."
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"It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am."
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Donnie Wahlberg
"It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am."
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"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
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Steve Buscemi
"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
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"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."
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Adam Sandler
"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."
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"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."
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Richard Pryor
"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."
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"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
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Russell Crowe
"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
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"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it."
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Ryan Gosling
"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it."
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"To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily."
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Warren Beatty
"To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily."
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"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"
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Peter Fonda
"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"
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"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."
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Gary Oldman
"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."
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"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
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Donald Sutherland
"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
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"In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood."
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John Ratzenberger
"In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood."
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"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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Jonathan Brandis
"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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