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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Arkin

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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