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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.

Alan Arkin

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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You 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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Cost Honest Learn Marriage Require Sear Third Wife
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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