I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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 begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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