Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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