I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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