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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.

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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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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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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 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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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’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 don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.

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