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PAIGE BUTCHER Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO. KYLE MACLACHLAN All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the... KAMAND KOJOURI Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christma... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do. SEAN YOUNG As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single. BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother ... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continen... JOHN LAHR I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my hou... AARON NEVILLE I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm... 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WITHERED HAND I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparrin... ALEXIS ARGUELLO Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good. RYAN GOSLING I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I... JOSS WHEDON This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enou... CLARA BARTON I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like ev... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, ther... DULE HILL It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ... JANET MCTEER I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I ... 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Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they'... BRIAN MAY
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IAN MCSHANE I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. IAN MCSHANE My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw... IAN MCSHANE Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. IAN MCSHANE If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba... IAN MCSHANE You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change. IAN MCSHANE There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play... IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ... IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle. IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football... IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now. IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women. IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park... IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ... IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm... IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha... IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had. IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and... IAN MCLAGAN