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.
ALAN ARKINIt’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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