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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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"I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything."
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Sean Bean
"I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything."
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"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."
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Jackie Chan
"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."
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"They look right. And you move left."
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Bruce Willis
"They look right. And you move left."
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"When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best."
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James Stewart
"When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best."
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"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."
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Willie Aames
"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."
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"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
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Mickey Rourke
"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
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"Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."
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Brad Pitt
"Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."
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"I always knew I was going to be a family man."
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Rick Schroder
"I always knew I was going to be a family man."
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"I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home."
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Michael Zaslow
"I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home."
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"I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!"
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Dominic Monaghan
"I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!"
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"You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God."
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John C. McGinley
"You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God."
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"I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing."
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Alan Ladd
"I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing."
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"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."
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David Friedman
"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."
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"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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Ted Danson
"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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"I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick."
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Peter O'Toole
"I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick."
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"The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award."
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Javier Bardem
"The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award."
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"My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance."
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Denis Leary
"My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance."
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"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."
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Jackie Cooper
"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."
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"After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make."
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Christian Slater
"After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make."
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"I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change."
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Keanu Reeves
"I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change."
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"When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them."
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Kevin Costner
"When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them."
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"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
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Robert Duvall
"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
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"There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year."
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Steve Guttenberg
"There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year."
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"That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too."
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Sean Penn
"That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too."
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"I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them."
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Jeremy Northam
"I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them."
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"In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them."
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Casey Affleck
"In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them."
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"Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?"
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Bill Mumy
"Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?"
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"I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording."
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Richard O'Brien
"I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording."
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"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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Chris Hemsworth
"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
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Jack Scalia
"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
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"Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?"
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Joseph Bologna
"Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?"
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"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."
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Jeffrey Donovan
"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."
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"Radical surgery is never fun."
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Brent Spiner
"Radical surgery is never fun."
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"My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives."
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Harvey Fierstein
"My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives."
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"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
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Bruce Lee
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
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"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit."
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Christian Bale
"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit."
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"I love going on location, and the location was nice."
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Ray Walston
"I love going on location, and the location was nice."
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"I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that."
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James Denton
"I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that."
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"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much."
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Campbell Scott
"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much."
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"I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important."
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Christopher Meloni
"I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important."
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"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."
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Thomas Haden Church
"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."
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"I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way."
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David Morse
"I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way."
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"There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there."
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Lloyd Bridges
"There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there."
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"I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD."
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Brian Austin Green
"I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD."
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"I was born in London, so going there is always a treat."
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Roger Moore
"I was born in London, so going there is always a treat."
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"It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore."
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Lance Loud
"It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore."
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"I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it."
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Roland Gift
"I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it."
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