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 ARKINThere’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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