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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

Alan Arkin

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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
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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Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
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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Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
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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Fifth Follow How Initiation Matter Paren Read Right Spend Time
That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
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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Bunch Enthusiastic Lean Lot Thing Widely Year
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Business Corporate Experimental Formulaic Less More
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
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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Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
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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Answer Condition Everything Human Read Reflection Television
The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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