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.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what 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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