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.
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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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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