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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?

Alan Arkin

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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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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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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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