What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINI suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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.
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