For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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