Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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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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