I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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