Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINImprovisation 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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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what 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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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 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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