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"I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship."
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Aaron Eckhart
"I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship."
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"Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac."
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Javier Bardem
"Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac."
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"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."
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Chris Burke
"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."
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"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
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Armand Assante
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
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"I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy."
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Noah Hathaway
"I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy."
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"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
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John Lithgow
"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
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"I love the stage."
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Anthony Quinn
"I love the stage."
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"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."
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"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
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Martin Short
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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"Nations have come under the control of haters and fools."
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Carroll O'Connor
"Nations have come under the control of haters and fools."
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"It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff."
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Gil Gerard
"It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff."
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"I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish."
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Larry David
"I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish."
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"I don't think my parents know what I do."
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John Malkovich
"I don't think my parents know what I do."
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"The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors."
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Kenneth Branagh
"The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors."
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"Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does."
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Marla Sokoloff
"Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does."
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"I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football."
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David Walliams
"I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football."
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"When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf."
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Thomas Haden Church
"When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf."
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"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."
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Dougray Scott
"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."
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"I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet."
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Paul Rudd
"I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet."
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"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."
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Matthew Modine
"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."
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"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
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Nicolas Cage
"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
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"I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity."
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Harrison Ford
"I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity."
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"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
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Klaus Kinski
"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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Tom Wilkinson
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."
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Rainn Wilson
"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."
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"In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there."
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Stephen Collins
"In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there."
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"Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing."
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Shia LaBeouf
"Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing."
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"I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy."
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Kevin Bacon
"I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy."
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"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
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Richard Attenborough
"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
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"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."
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Ralph Fiennes
"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."
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"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
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John Leeson
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
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"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."
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Peter Ustinov
"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."
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"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility."
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William Petersen
"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility."
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
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Richard Burton
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
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"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling."
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Dean Stockwell
"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling."
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"It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it."
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Dwight Schultz
"It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it."
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"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."
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Kevin Costner
"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."
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"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me."
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Peter Fonda
"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me."
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"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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Alex Winter
"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
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Timothy West
"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
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"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."
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Tommy Chong
"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."
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"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."
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Eli Wallach
"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."
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"There is no teaching to compare with example."
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Robert Powell
"There is no teaching to compare with example."
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"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
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Tom Berenger
"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
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"Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone."
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Franco Nero
"Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone."
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"I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time."
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Jim Varney
"I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time."
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"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."
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Charlie Chaplin
"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."
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"In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time."
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Mark Goddard
"In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time."
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"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."
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James Earl Jones
"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."
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