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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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