What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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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 love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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