For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKINEither you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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