No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
ALAN ARKINFor many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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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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