I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKINI 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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Two-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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 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 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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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