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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

Alan Arkin

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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Actor Arbitrary Best Connect Isolate Physicist Thing Universe Win Work
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Actor Business Know People
” 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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
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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