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.
ALAN ARKINCreativity 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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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