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 ARKINI 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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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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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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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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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