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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.

Alan Arkin

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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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 begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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 keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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