If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINAnd 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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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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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 believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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