I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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