There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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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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