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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.

Alan Arkin

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
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
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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Fifth Follow How Initiation Matter Paren Read Right Spend Time
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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
” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
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
I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
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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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
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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Business Love never
I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing

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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