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.
ALAN ARKIN
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to 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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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