[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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