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.
ALAN ARKINHollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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