I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKINIncorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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