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 ARKINYou 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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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