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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.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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