I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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