If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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