I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKIN
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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But 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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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 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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