Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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