I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKINI 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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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 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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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