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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

Alan Arkin

There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
” 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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Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Absolute Always Truth Unfold
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
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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Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Business Corporate Experimental Formulaic Less More
You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
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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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
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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Break Creativity Exist Grace Learn Order Rule Say
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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Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
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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All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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

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