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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

Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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