You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKINIf 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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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 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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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 begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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