Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINWhat 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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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” 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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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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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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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