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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.

Alan Arkin

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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Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work
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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Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
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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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
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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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Audience Good Keep Know Prepare Surprise Think
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
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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Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Analyze Certain Move Performance Thing Try Watch World
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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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
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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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Actor Business Know People
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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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
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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Business Love never

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