Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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