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.
ALAN ARKINIncorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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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 can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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