There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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’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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like 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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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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It 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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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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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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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” 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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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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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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