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.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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