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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.

Alan Arkin

It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKIN

Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
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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Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
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
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
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
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
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
Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work
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 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.
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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
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
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
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
ALAN ARKIN

Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal

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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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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