I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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