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.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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 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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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