I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINIncorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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It 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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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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