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"It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up."
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Casey Affleck
"It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up."
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"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."
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Tom Cruise
"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."
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"Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that."
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Christopher Walken
"Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that."
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"I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job."
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William Petersen
"I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job."
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"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father.""
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Will Rogers
"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father.""
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"Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act."
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Peter O'Toole
"Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act."
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"I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great."
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Jason Mewes
"I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great."
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"So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world."
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Jim Coleman
"So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world."
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"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."
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Aaron Eckhart
"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."
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"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong."
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Jet Li
"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong."
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"I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump."
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Willem Dafoe
"I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump."
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"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
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David Ogden Stiers
"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
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"Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are."
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Ben Affleck
"Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are."
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"I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun."
Fun,
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"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
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Ewan McGregor
"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
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"In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery."
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Max von Sydow
"In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery."
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"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
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Michael Pitt
"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
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"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."
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Kevin Bacon
"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."
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"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
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John Barrymore
"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
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"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."
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"So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get."
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Paul M. Glaser
"So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get."
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"I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue."
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F. Murray Abraham
"I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue."
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"My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working."
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Peter Fonda
"My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working."
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"There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things."
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Jensen Ackles
"There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things."
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"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike."
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James Cagney
"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike."
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"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
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Rupert Everett
"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
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"It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up."
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Michael Pitt
"It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up."
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"High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage."
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Alan Autry
"High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage."
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"I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies."
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Tommy Kirk
"I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies."
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"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
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George Takei
"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
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"Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it."
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Jay Hernandez
"Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it."
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"I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life."
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Hector Elizondo
"I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life."
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"Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them."
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Edward James Olmos
"Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them."
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"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."
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Tom Wilkinson
"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."
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"I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it."
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Leonard Nimoy
"I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it."
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"Luck has had a great deal to do with my career."
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John Glover
"Luck has had a great deal to do with my career."
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"I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration."
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Judd Nelson
"I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration."
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"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
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Brion James
"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
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"You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do."
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Chris Hemsworth
"You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do."
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"I manage to hide in my movies."
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Liev Schreiber
"I manage to hide in my movies."
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"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."
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Bruce Boxleitner
"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."
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"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston."
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Morgan Freeman
"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston."
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"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."
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Mark Ruffalo
"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."
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"This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero."
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Adam Sandler
"This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero."
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"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."
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Robert Towne
"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."
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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."
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Jonathan Brandis
"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."
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"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
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Stanley Tucci
"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
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"I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry."
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David Cross
"I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry."
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"After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall."
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall."
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"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."
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Matthew Modine
"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."
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