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.
ALAN ARKINYou 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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