Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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