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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.

Alan Arkin

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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
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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Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
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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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Cost Honest Learn Marriage Require Sear Third Wife
I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
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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Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious
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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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself

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