For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKINWhat 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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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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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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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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 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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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