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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.

Alan Arkin

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
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
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Become Done Eat Inform Order Otherwise Own Snake Tail Vampirism
I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
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
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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Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Cost Honest Learn Marriage Require Sear Third Wife
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Business Know People
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Break Creativity Exist Grace Learn Order Rule Say
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Amalgamation Beginning Being Culture One Real See World
I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKIN

Business Love never

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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