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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.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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