It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKINThe 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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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