There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKINEvery 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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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 don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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