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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.

Alan Arkin

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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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