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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Alan Arkin

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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Immerse Life People Purpose Real Wanna
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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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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
” 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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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