I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
ALAN ARKINAs hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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 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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” 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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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