Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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