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.
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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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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