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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

Alan Arkin

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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.
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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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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
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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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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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 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 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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