I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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 believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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.
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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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