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.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Creativity 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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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And 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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being 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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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