I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKINThings are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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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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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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