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I 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.

Alan Arkin

I 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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKIN

Amalgamation Beginning Being Culture One Real See World
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
ALAN ARKIN

Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKIN

Go Matter Miss Missing Something
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
ALAN ARKIN

Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
ALAN ARKIN

Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN

Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
ALAN ARKIN

Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKIN

Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKIN

Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN

Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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

Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKIN

Done Fake Hit Movie

I 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 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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