I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINHollywood 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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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