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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.

Alan Arkin

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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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
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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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
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
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
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
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 live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Immerse Life People Purpose Real Wanna
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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All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
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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Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
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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Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
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

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