It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKINIf you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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