Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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