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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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 think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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