[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINTV 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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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 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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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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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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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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