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

Alan Arkin

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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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