IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINI see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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 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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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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 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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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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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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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