It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKINNo 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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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