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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.

Alan Arkin

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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 see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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 believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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 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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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 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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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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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