I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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 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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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