For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKINWe might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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