Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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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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” 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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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 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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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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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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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