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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.

Alan Arkin

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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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 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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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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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
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 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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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