It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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