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.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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 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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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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 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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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