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 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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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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