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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.

Alan Arkin

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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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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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