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 ARKINAs hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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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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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 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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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