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Schwarzenegger gives his thoughts on being part of the cast on the movie The Expendables 2:
It was terrific, because we’re competitive guys who were always trying to outdo each other through decades of making films— who has the biggest muscles, the biggest guns, the biggest fight scenes, the biggest explosions. You always try to be the best, but everyone came together on this film.
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Ulrich talks about filming the Metallica video St. Anger in San Quentin Prison:
Very intimidating—trust me. It’s surreal being inside San Quentin and looking out at the surrounding area where every morning I drive my kids to school. I now know which chimney is the exhaust pipe from the gas chamber. It’s truly, truly bizarre.
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Jillette gives his thoughts on appearing on The Celebrity Apprentice:
It’s 16 hours a day, 6 days a week with cameras on you, doing what you’re not good at, and you’re in an environment with people that you don’t know. It’s not the hardest job I’ve had – I’ve certainly worked that many hours in a week before – but when I’m working, it’s doing stuff that I’ve chosen to do so it’s a different feeling. But on the show, we’re doing stuff we’re not good at, stuff we didn’t choose, with cameras on us. It’s a goofy experience.
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Hoffman discusses why he chose to star in the HBO series Luck:
Michael Mann and I had been trying to work together since the ’70s, and now, all these years later, he calls me up and says, You probably don’t want to do TV, but this is one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. I agreed. It shows the reality of horse racing, and it is far removed from the Kentucky Derby with everybody wearing those fancy hats. There’s a sordid underside and a brutality in terms of the animals.
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Krupa talks about finishing in fourth place on Dancing With The Stars:
That was one of my proudest moments. I’m very ambitious and competitive, so I wanted to do well. But don’t get me wrong—for some of the ladies The Real Housewives was also a competition! I was shocked by how low people could hit below the belt just to get some camera time.
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McBride talks about filming the second season of the HBO series Eastbound and Down in Mexico:
We wanted to. Honestly, that was the reason we chose Mexico. We were like, It’d be the shit to move down to Cabo and shoot the show! But I guess with some of the cartel violence, HBO’s safety-insurance people weren’t down for us going there, so we shot in Puerto Rico instead.
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Bowden talks about how she switched went from modeling to appearing on the television show 30 Rock:
I auditioned for the part of Cerie when I was about 16, which was a little bit young for the character, so they shot the pilot with a different girl. But when NBC picked it up a year later, I was old enough and they recast it.
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Auerbach talks about the impact of The Black Keys’ album Brothers:
Absolutely. I mean, it was our seventh record, so to finally hear our songs on the radio was kind of crazy, and it opened up the door for other songs to get played. But we’d toured like crazy, and each record sold better than the last one, so we definitely laid the groundwork.
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DeLoach discusses her role on MTV’s Awkward:
It’s my favorite role I’ve ever had. I play Lacey Hamilton – the overbearing, narcissistic, self-involved, but very well intentioned mother to Jenna Hamilton; it’s the most fun I’ve ever had playing a character. It’s such a blessing and I feel so fortunate that we’re about to go into our 3rdseason.
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White talks about the difference between skateboarding and snowboarding:
Oh, man, that was the best! The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it’s really anybody’s game out there. I wanted that gold real bad. It was almost more of a celebration than winning the Olympics.
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Roxiny discusses how she got started in the music industry:
Music is something that I’ve pretty much done since I could probably talk, but I started taking it really seriously when I was in high school — that’s when I figured out that being on stage was the way to go for me, and I really enjoyed it and I loved writing music. By the time I was in college, I was auditioning and ended up at Sony records.
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Harnois discusses how she got ready for her role as Morgan Brody on the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation:
They sent me to the coroner’s office in Vegas, and I witnessed real autopsies! It’s important to me to really understand this job and the role I’m playing. And to make sure I wouldn’t look like I’m in shock on-screen, I really had to see it.
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Riesgraf talks about doing stunts and her character Parker’s personality on the TNT show Leverage:
Probably running on top of a moving train. Thank God I didn’t trip. I was wearing Dr. Martens! I know a lot of crazy girls, and I know a lot of great guys who love crazy girls. A little bit of crazy is exciting, but too much becomes a pain in the ass.
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Hasleth talks about getting her start in politics:
Well I first became interested in politics during the last presidential election. So many people in the community were taking the stance of it doesn’t really matter who we vote for because no one is going to represent us. I thought, You know that’s not really true, we just have to elect the right person. I decided to get involved and I started volunteering on campaigns.
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Amoia discusses her role in the movie American Reunion:
I play Thomas Ian Nicholas’s (Kevin) wife, and basically you see his mature relationship with me, and then the contrast of the first love feelings that come up when he sees Vicki [Tara Reid] at the reunion. So he has a little bit of a conflict with that. And then all three of us meet…It was great.
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Ebert talks about the impact his role as a movie critic had on movie viewers:
I think we put the notion into the minds of some kids that they wanted to grow up to be movie critics. If we did, that was our great success. I don’t mean they did do it for a living, but that at a young age they learned to be more demanding about the movies they saw.
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Rudd gives his thoughts on which of his films influenced his life the most:
Wet Hot American Summer was the first one that felt like my own sensibility. It was just so fun. And Anchorman marked a tidal shift in my career. After that I started working with Judd [Apatow] and doing a lot more comedies.
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Hayes gives her thoughts on joining the cast of Guys with Kids:
I’m very excited to join this show! Jimmy Fallon is producing it. I play Jesse Bradford’s ex-wife and we have a one-year-old child together so we’re kind of figuring out divorced parenting. Anthony Anderson and Tempest Bledsoe play another couple with four kids and Zach Cregger and Jamie Lynn-Sigler play another couple with one child, so it’s a really fun cast. I’m thrilled to be a part of it.
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Clay talks about who he would feature in the sequel to his movie, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane:
I’d get somebody new, because a new actress on a set will do just about anything. Between scenes she could rub my feet and my back. She won’t realize until her third movie, Oh, I didn’t have to do that.
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Piven talks about the last season of the HBO series Entourage:
This year I’m getting into stuff with my character that I haven’t explored yet. We are continuing with the theme of the wife who has had enough of him. It’s breaking him up, because his family means everything to him. I definitely feel like there is more to do. We are positioned well for a movie.