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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

Alan Arkin

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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

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