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.
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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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 suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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