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.
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck 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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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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