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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

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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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