What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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” 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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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