If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKINIt’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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