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.
ALAN ARKINMost of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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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 business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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 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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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