I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINBut 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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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