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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.

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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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