Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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