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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

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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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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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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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