I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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