Arnold Vosloo; (concerning money) You know, maybe because I can now afford things I used to dream of, I no longer want them. I test drove a Porsche the other day and then I thought, 'Do I really need this?' I am quite happy in my bakkie.
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Arnold Vosloo: Luck. I have been thinking about this. Many people might think that luck has played a major part in my success. But it is more complicated than that. I really did time to get where I am.
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Arnold Vosloo: Before I went into movies my father said, 'Whatever you do, don't sleep with anyone on set.' I never have.
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Arnold's favourite living actor is Robert De Niro.
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Arnold's favourite movie is A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Arnold says he biggest vice is his tendency to use the F-word a little too often.
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Arnold's favourite place in the whole world is Swakopmund in Namibia.
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Arnold collects pewter and silver flasks.
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When Arnold left school he went to the army (SA Fifth Battalion infantry), and then spent 2 years with PACT (The Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal).
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Arnold's childhood was one spent travelling South Africa, depending on his parents' work.
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Arnold grew up in Uitenhage, a long way from Holly-wood, where his parents managed a drive-in cinema and he lived in a sensurround of skop, skit en donner.
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Arnold played Johannes, the Baptizener, in the stageplay Salome with Al Pacino in New York in 1992.
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Arnold is an avid fan of horror movies.
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Arnold doesn't have a middle name.
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Arnold suffers from porphyria (a hereditary metabolic disease). It isn't a lethal disease, but he has to tend to it on a regular basis.
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Arnold's dream is to own a farm in the Karoo where he can raise greyhounds.
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Arnold has a pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Sophie.
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Arnold's natural eye colour is hazel.
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Arnold's favourite food is basically any fruit.
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Arnold currently resides in Canada.
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Arnold's parents are Deon and Joyce Vosloo.
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Arnold has one sibling, a sister named Nadia.
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Arnold provided the voice for main hero Saul Myers, of the video game Boiling Point: Road to Hell published in summer of 2005.
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Arnold served two years in the military in South Africa after leaving school.
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Arnold says his major ambition is "to redo Peckinpah's Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia."
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Arnold is a great fan of classic films.
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Arnold's first American theatrical production was the musical Chicago in the early '90s.
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Arnold participated for ten years in anti-apartheid theatre in his homeland of South Africa.
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In 2000, Arnold was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Villain for: The Mummy (1999).
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A few of Arnold's nicknames are Arny, Boetie, and Boeta.
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Arnold stands 6' 2" (1.88 m) tall.
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