You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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