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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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