Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKIN
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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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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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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 what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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