I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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