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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.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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