I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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