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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

Alan Arkin

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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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