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.
ALAN ARKIN
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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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’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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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 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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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