For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKINYou 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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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