You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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