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" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "
Michael Douglas
Wall Street
Movie
Sheen
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" Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.' "
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" I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. "
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" Sometimes art imitates life. "
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" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "
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" I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go. "
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" Every empire eventually falls. "
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" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "
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" My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. "
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" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "
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America
" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
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Blessed
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" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "
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" When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. "
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" I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help. "
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Think
You
Sick
" I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. "
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Marvel
Been
Dying
" I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. "
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Her
Marriage
" I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures. "
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Pictures
Used
Look
" The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men. "
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Men And Women
Like
Company
" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "
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Side
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" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "
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Always
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" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "
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Smile
Always
Grim
" I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. "
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Myself
Rehab
Save
" I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. "
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Best
Cancer
Tongue
" Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. "
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" Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. "
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" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "
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Started
" For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. "
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" I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time. "
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" I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. "
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" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "
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