I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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All 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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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