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 ARKINMost of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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What 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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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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” 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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