Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
ALAN ARKINA 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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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 played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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 begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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