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.
ALAN ARKINConfronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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