Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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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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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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.
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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 bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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