Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINWhat 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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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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