I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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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 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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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