I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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