You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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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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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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 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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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