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Alan Arkin

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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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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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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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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