No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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