As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKINThat’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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 don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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