[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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 had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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