Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKINIt keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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