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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.

Alan Arkin

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN

Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
ALAN ARKIN

Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKIN

Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKIN

Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKIN

Artist Believe Between Competition Insane Someone
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKIN

Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKIN

All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN

Go Know never Out React Thing Turn
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
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKIN

Cost Honest Learn Marriage Require Sear Third Wife
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
ALAN ARKIN

Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Break Creativity Exist Grace Learn Order Rule Say
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKIN

Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach

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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