IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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