I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINI’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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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