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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.

Alan Arkin

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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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 had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it 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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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” 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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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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