IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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 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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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