You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINMy favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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 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’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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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