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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Alan Arkin

The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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