''Anyone can play those other parts. What's it take to be a grape?... I was the leaf, man. A leaf has to be on a tree; it has to change. (In) autumn, it falls. A lot of acting experience goes into that.'' -Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham on his Fruit of the Loom gig, to Conan O'Brien ''I can pretty much kiss those Ibsen festivals goodbye.''
-John Goodman on the drawbacks of playing Fred Flintstone, to Jay Leno

''Jack Nicholson showed me that shot.''
-Joe Pesci, swinging a golf club too close to Greg Kinnear's head

''Frasier, you're my brother, you're entitled to my bone marrow and one of my kidneys, but this is an imposition.''
-Niles (David Hyde Pierce), trying to avoid a family vacation in a Winnebago, on Frasier


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