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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.

Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN

Go Know never Out React Thing Turn
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKIN

Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN

Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKIN

Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN

Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
ALAN ARKIN

Break Creativity Exist Grace Learn Order Rule Say
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
” 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.
ALAN ARKIN

Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
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
ALAN ARKIN

Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKIN

Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think

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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