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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.

Alan Arkin

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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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