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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

Alan Arkin

Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Age Certain Eight Even Move Seven Six Thing
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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Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
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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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Bunch Enthusiastic Lean Lot Thing Widely Year
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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
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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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Business Corporate Experimental Formulaic Less More
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
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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Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work
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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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing

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