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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.

Alan Arkin

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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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