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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Alan Arkin

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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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
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

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