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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

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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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