I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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 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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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