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.
ALAN ARKINIt’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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