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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

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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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” 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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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