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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

Alan Arkin

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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Answer Condition Everything Human Read Reflection Television
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Go Know never Out React Thing Turn
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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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Age Certain Eight Even Move Seven Six Thing
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
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
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
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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Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work
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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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
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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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still

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