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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.

Alan Arkin

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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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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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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