If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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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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