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 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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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 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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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 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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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