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"I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary."
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Ed Harris
"I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary."
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"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
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James Earl Jones
"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
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"That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up."
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Zach Braff
"That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up."
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"People aren't born racist."
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Edward Furlong
"People aren't born racist."
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"I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!"
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John Glover
"I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!"
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"I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type."
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Gary Cole
"I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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Ivan Reitman
"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."
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Denzel Washington
"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."
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"I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream."
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Olivier Martinez
"I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream."
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"I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school."
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Tom Felton
"I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school."
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"Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will."
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Beau Bridges
"Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will."
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"My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons."
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Don Johnson
"My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons."
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"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."
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Michael Richards
"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."
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"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."
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Edward James Olmos
"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."
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"If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma."
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Harold Ramis
"If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma."
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"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
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Bruce Greenwood
"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
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"My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life."
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David Cassidy
"My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life."
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"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot."
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Michael Berryman
"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot."
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"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
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Theodore Bikel
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
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"The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness."
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Kenneth Branagh
"The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness."
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"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
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Ricardo Montalban
"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
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"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."
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Karl Urban
"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."
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"It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet."
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Tom Felton
"It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet."
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"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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James Earl Jones
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
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Christian Bale
"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
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"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through."
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James Cagney
"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through."
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"I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world."
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Paul Robeson
"I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world."
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"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."
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Anthony Michael Hall
"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."
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"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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Harry Dean Stanton
"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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"I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes."
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Kevin Bacon
"I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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William Devane
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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"Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person."
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Ron Silver
"Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person."
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"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
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James Daly
"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
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"I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it."
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Mark Ruffalo
"I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it."
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"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."
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Donnie Yen
"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."
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"If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?"
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Olivier Martinez
"If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?"
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"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."
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Charlie Sheen
"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."
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"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."
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Ben Kingsley
"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."
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"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."
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Harrison Ford
"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."
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"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
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Griffin Dunne
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
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"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."
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James MacArthur
"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."
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"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
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Drew Carey
"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
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"Life is best when you are in love."
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Michael Moriarty
"Life is best when you are in love."
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"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."
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"Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything."
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Matthew Fox
"Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything."
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"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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Theodore Bikel
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."
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Olivier Martinez
"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."
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"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."
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Anthony Anderson
"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."
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"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
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Bruce McCulloch
"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
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"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing."
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Adrian Grenier
"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing."
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