Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
ALAN ARKINTwo-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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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 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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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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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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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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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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