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.
ALAN ARKININ order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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