1987 Quotes
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(While watching an excerpt from an episode of "Full House" (1987) in which he dresses as a woman) "Ahhh, where is my face?! I lost so much face on that show, I don`t even exist anymore!"
Bob Saget
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On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
Christian Bale
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[1987 comment on Meryl Streep] Let`s just say I found her a little distant. I hardly got to know her. We had dinner a couple of times, but she only spoke about work. I didn`t find her easy to work with, but it`s not her job to make it easy for me.
Charles Dance
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[Talking about making the original Robocop (1987)]: "When I was making it, I knew it was going to be a great thing, but you never know whether they are going to be successful or not. I knew we where making a fantastic social allegory, and, I don`t want to...
Peter Weller
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[in a 1987 interview] I have to give the audiences what they enjoy seeing while I try to bring in a little something new, with different movies, different time periods and all those things. But what`s important is to entertain the people -- everything els...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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[1998] "I create challenges by the roles I take. I`m sort of proud of the fact that I`m not really typecast. People are always trying to get a handle on what you do. With me either it`s my sex trilogy - Fatal Attraction (1987), Basic Instinct (1992) and D...
Michael Douglas
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[Speaking in 1987] It`s difficult to be married outside the profession. A lawyer might not understand that going to bed with Gabriel Byrne for three days is work for me.
Ellen Barkin
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In 1987: "Acting is like sex. You should do it, not talk about it."
Joanne Woodward
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On the sudden fame that resulted after_Empire of the Sun (1987)_: "I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me, and I was being asked to ope...
Christian Bale
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[in 1994 interview, on how she got cast in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)] I did it because, frankly, I couldn`t get any other work then. I liked the show, so I asked if I could be on it. As a matter of fact, I asked twice. The first time, I sent...
Whoopi Goldberg
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[On why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn`t a grain of originality in it - it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end...
John Carpenter
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[on starring in "Full House" (1987)] "The whole time I was on it, I wished I was on another show, I`m not gonna lie to you. But I look back on it fondly, and I`m proud of it. Was it "Seinfeld" (1990), "Friends" (1994), "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970)? No. Was i...
John Stamos
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When I got nominated for the Oscar [for Street Smart (1987)], it put rocket boosters in my career. Since childhood, all I wanted to do was make movies. I love the stage, but I wanted to be a movie actor.
Morgan Freeman
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On auditioning for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987): "I walked in and was told they had three parts, and I could play any part I wanted. `Okay`, I asked, `Which one is the funniest?` Beverly Crusher. I swear to god. Seriously! So I go, `Okay, fine`...
Gates McFadden
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[1987] "I would give up everything I do and everything I have if I could make a significant difference in getting the nuclear arms race reversed. It is the number one priority in my life. My work was the main thing in my life for a long time; now I`m begi...
Gregory Peck
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[1987] "Robert Bork wants to be a Supreme Court justice. But the record shows he has a strange idea of what justice is. He defended poll taxes and literacy tests, which kept many Americans from voting. He opposed the civil rights law that ended `whites on...
Gregory Peck
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Basically, everything that I would do in my outside life ended up in the [Married with Children" (1987)] script, whether it was my battle with zits, or just growing up."
David Faustino
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My fan website says `site open since 1987, 37 visitors`. So I`ve got a very small but very dedicated group of fans I guess.
Jason Flemyng
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[on why, after the 1987 demise of "Remington Steele" (1982), he appeared in a series of movies that were box-office flops] I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You kno...
Pierce Brosnan
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[in a 1987 interview] When people nowadays say that [Elvis Presley] was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of "That`s My Desire", they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded blac...
Frankie Laine
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We all get along really well and we all are the best of friends. They really did become my other family and my group of friends. - about the close relationship between the cast mates of "Full House" (1987)
Jodie Sweetin
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[On his money setbacks]: I trusted my manager with my money during my illness. Now I was broke. Money woes stayed with me. I grabbed whatever pictures were offered. Admittedly films like Malone (1987), _Rent-A-Cop (1987)_ and Switching Channels (1988) all...
Burt Reynolds
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[On his money setbacks]: I trusted my manager with my money during my illness. Now I was broke. Money woes stayed with me. I grabbed whatever pictures were offered. Admittedly films like Malone (1987), _Rent-A-Cop (1987)_ and Switching Channels (1988) all...
Burt Reynolds
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[1987 comment on Robert De Niro] He`s very low-key and concentrated when he`s working. The thing that gets in the way of his work is people staring at him. So what you have to do on the set when he`s working is to get people who are just going to gawk out...
Brian De Palma
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[on how her career as an actress began] : ....Joel and Ethan (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) had just finished the script of Raising Arizona (1987), and they asked me to read it and said that they`d written this part for me and would I be interested in doing it?...
Holly Hunter
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I`m willing to take less money and fourth billing and do interesting roles. I hate putting Limitations on myself. I don`t set out to sell popcorn or make money for the major studios. What I`d like is for my work to have meaning. - On his career choices (1...
Jason Patric
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Everyone argues, then we do what I say. - 1987
Bono
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[1987 comment on Shirley MacLaine] She`s an extraordinary woman, a little `round the bend I think, but she`s been doing what she does for a long time and she does it very well. Where Meryl Streep is intellectual, Shirley follows her gut. I like that bette...
Charles Dance
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When I read the pilot [for "Married with Children" (1987)], it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe...just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He`d come home from work, and the wife would maybe say, `I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway`. And he would ...
Ed O`Neill
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It was quite an adjustment to me. Before Full House" (1987) my roles were mostly serious soap opera parts playing evil characters. Now I was a squeaky clean morning show host from Nebraska on a TGIF sitcom."
Lori Loughlin
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