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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.

Alan Arkin

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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