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Alan Arkin

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.
ALAN ARKIN

Immerse Life People Purpose Real Wanna
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKIN

Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
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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Business Love never
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
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKIN

Become Done Eat Inform Order Otherwise Own Snake Tail Vampirism
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKIN

Done Fake Hit Movie
Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKIN

Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN

Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
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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Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work
” 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.
ALAN ARKIN

Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
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 ARKIN

Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKIN

Decay Ground Grow Middle Still

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