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 ARKINImprovisation 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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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 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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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