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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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 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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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