Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINI had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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