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“I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.”

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William Petersen, born on February 21, 1953, is an accomplished American actor. He is best known for his role as Jim Bruckner in the television series 'CSI: NY', and has made significant contributions to film and television. more

“We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did more than Batman Begins, our first movie, did more than Superman Returns, The Fast and the Furious, Star Trek- so for a movie that was an original property that we made up it's done really well.”

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Author:Thomas Tull

“I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.”

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Author:William Petersen

“I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.”

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Author:Thomas Tull

“I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder or Chris Nolan, it's a privilege to do this and I've never lost the awe, the awe factor of just going in and watching peoples reactions to what you've spent, in a lot of cases, years working on. That's a good way to put it, I love what I do and it's a privilege to do it.”

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Author:Thomas Tull

“I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.”

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Author:William Petersen

“The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].”

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Author:Lake Bell

“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.”

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Author:Lake Bell

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