I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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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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