I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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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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