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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think
I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
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
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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
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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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Business Love never
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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Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
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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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
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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Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
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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Answer Condition Everything Human Read Reflection Television
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
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want

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