I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKINI played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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 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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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