It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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