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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.

Alan Arkin

Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Business Corporate Experimental Formulaic Less More
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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
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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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Become Done Eat Inform Order Otherwise Own Snake Tail Vampirism
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 believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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