But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKINTwo-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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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