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

Alan Arkin

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
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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Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think
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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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
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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Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
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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Ancient Future Hindu Huge Illusion Modern Now Oldest Past Philosophy Science Time Vedas
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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Immerse Life People Purpose Real Wanna
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word

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