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.
ALAN ARKINAs hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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” 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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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 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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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