I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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