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 ARKINMy favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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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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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 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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