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The Iron Sheik talks about the release of his upcoming documentary:
The documentary about me coming from Iran to move to the America so I live American dream. From there I talk about my life in the wrestling, my life on the road all the up and down that come with this, my life after the wrestling too, and now that I am the legend forever I talk about all my new fans and new generation respect.
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Wood discusses starring in the remake of the movie Maniac:
It’s a primarily POV film about a man who has a compulsion to stalk and murder women. You experience what this man’s world is and get a feel for his life – he discovers this young girl who it seems he has a real yearning for romantic love with that probably can’t sustain within the context of the world he set up for himself.
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Guzman speaks about why he was excited to star in the movie The Last Stand:
I read the script and I thought it was really, really cool. And Kim Jee-Woon, the director, the Korean guy, he’s like the top action director in Asia, and I wanted to experience working with someone different. And of course the fact that Arnold was in it, and shooting in the great state of New Mexico.
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Vaughn talks to Maxim about directing and starring in the movie The Internship:
I saw a 60 Minutes piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There’s free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I’m the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything— I’d be all over the Ping-Pong. I also thought, unfortunately there are a lot of people currently losing jobs, and things are moving in different directions. So a lot of older people are finding themselves unemployed and without the necessary skill set that is in demand now. It’s this: Oh, gosh, where do I land? So I’m really proud of this movie. I feel like it’s really a movie of this moment we live in.
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Offerman talks about how he got involved with the movie The Kings of Summer:
I’m crazy about the movie. It’s [director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’] first feature. He’s 29, and if I didn’t love him so much, I’d punch him in the mouth. And the cinematographer, Ross Riege, is his cameraman – he’s been making comedy shorts and then he shits this thing out, I’m so tickled to be a part of it. I just was taken by the script by Chris Galletta, I think it’s really a brilliant piece of writing, because his humor is so finely wrought, wonderfully dry and strange, which is certainly my own wheelhouse. Meanwhile there’s this wonderfully emotional story laced through the film that gives it such a great heart, and makes me feel really nostalgic for the John Hughes films of my youth.
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Dodean talks about her ping pong strategy and her go to move:
It’s very important to adapt to any kind of player. The good thing for me is that I’m always ready to try new styles – my coaches and players tell me my backhand is really good, but I like to believe that any move I make is great!
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Morrison talks about creating the character Damien Wayne in his Batman comic book series:
I always liked that idea and it just seemed, you know, at the start of the storyline, you want to put an outrageous thing to open with. And I love the title, Batman And Son, because it was kind of like [1960s British sitcom] Steptoe And Son, like a family business. It could’ve been “Son Of Batman” but that’s not quite as cool as Batman And Son, which is the sort of thing you’d imagine written on the side of a window cleaner’s van. And it seemed like a really good thing to slap a paternity suit on Batman suddenly and have him confront this specter of his past.
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Bay gives his thoughts on shooting a Victoria’s Secret ad:
They bring in tons of heels, and I walk in there knowing nothing about fashion. I just go from a guy’s perspective. I say, Those suck. What are those effin’ chunky heels? Get ’em out of here And they’re like, But these are in style! I don’t care. They’re gonna be out of style in a week. Guys don’t like chunky heels. Get rid of ’em.
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Palicki talks about why she liked doing many of her own stunts in the movie GI Joe: Retaliation:
It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody’s face when they’re doing them is fun for the audience. So I did my own till my double was like, I’ll do this one, because I don’t want you to die.
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Carell talks about his role in the movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone:
If you happen to have a foam ball on you, I can make it disappear. The character is basically a kid who finds magic as an outlet that makes him cool, and then he starts to think a bit too highly of himself.
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Fishel gives her thoughts why the ABC show Boy Meets World is so fondly remembered:
We were in people’s family rooms every Friday for seven years. When I watch old episodes, it’s like watching home movies, so I imagine that other people feel the same way. ABC’s TGIF lineup was probably the one time a week when parents and kids all watched TV together.
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Moore discusses writing the movie Whitest Kids U’ Know:
Yes! We’re working on it – we’re almost done with the script. We’ve been working on it for over a year, but we would start and then just be like, no, we don’t like this idea. We’d trash it and then come back to it, then we came up with the one we like, and then it moved really fast. It’s a linear movie, but it’s a little early for me to tell you what the plot is…
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Brooks talks about being a writer for the movie The Producers:
When I was about 17, I worked for a guy—I won’t mention his name, because he has children and grandchildren—who used to make love to little old ladies on a cracked leather couch. He lived in his office, which was against the rules of the building. I was kind of his intern, because he never paid me much, but it was a thrill. I thought I was in show business! Anyway, he did what the characters in The Producers did on a very petty level. He’d raise maybe $1,000 more than he needed to put his production on, and then he lived on that money.
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Wain gives his thoughts on the positives of Children’s Hospital being less than 15 minutes long:
I think most hour-long shows probably have the same amount of material story-wise as ours does. We just condense it and don’t have any filler. So especially for younger people, no one has the patience to sit through a half hour any more. And I don’t have the patience to make it anymore. 15 is the new 30.
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In an interview with Maxim, Schwartzman gives his thoughts on appearing in Moonrise Kingdom:
I would say that it’s an incredibly funny and poignant film about young love, and the dreams that you can have when you’re young. It takes place on an island, and is about a 12-year-old Khaki Scout who meets a 12-year-old girl on the other side of the island, and they fall in love and hatch a plan to run away from their lives; they’re not having good lives at home. It’s also about all the adults—who are in various stages of love falling apart—chasing them. I’ll just say it: It’s a giant adventure-chasing movie centered on 12-year-olds who are in love.
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Walken gives his thoughts on playing bad guys during his movie career:
It’s funny, because my background was in musical theater, and then The Deer Hunter and Annie Hall came out a year apart, where I played kind of unhinged guys. And in this business if you’re successful early on as a leading man or the comic relief or the crazy guy, chances are you’ll be asked to play that part again.
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Cohan talks about switching to a Southern accent while playing Maggie on AMC’s The Walking Dead:
I almost want to stay in an American accent all the time. I’m originally American, so it’s not actually that difficult. When people find out I grew up in England, I feel like I have to give a huge explanation. As soon as I’m on set, I’m very serious, and it’s very easy to go back into Maggie.
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Wade talks about winning his second NBA championship with the Miami Heat:
Both were awesome, but what made this one more gratifying was not only everything we went through as a team—going back to last season when we all decided to play together—but all I’ve been through personally. Getting divorced, going through an ugly custody battle. So when we won, so many emotions went through me. The last time we won a championship, I was 24 and worry-free.
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Phoenix talks about what made her interested in starring in the movie Spud:
Spud follows the diary of a young boy in an all-boys boarding school, and I went to an all-girls school. Similarly both the character Spud and I had some interesting things happen while growing up. Funny enough the story of Spud originates in Natal, where I grew up, just being back home in the Drakensberg with my family and old school friends was so magical and it brought back some fun memories.
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Rousey talks about her Strikeforce Bantamweight Title fight against Miesha Tate:
I knew her arm was out, but she was still trying to escape with a bridge, so I was trying to put her arm in my other hand. I was sitting up trying to punch her with my right hand when she finally gave up. I didn’t feel bad about it—I was reacting to the situation. I treat the fight like it’s up for grabs until the very end.