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 ARKINIf 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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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