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Alan Arkin

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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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