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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.

Alan Arkin

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
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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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
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
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 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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work
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.
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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
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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Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
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
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
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
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

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