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 ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to 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 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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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