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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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