I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKINI 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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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