But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKINI 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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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