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
ALAN ARKINIt keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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