If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKININ order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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 keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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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