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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.

Alan Arkin

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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