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 ARKINMost of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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