I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINAll 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.
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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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 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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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 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 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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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