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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.

Alan Arkin

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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
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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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
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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Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat

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