Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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