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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

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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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 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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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