I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINAs hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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 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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