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.
ALAN ARKINYou 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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 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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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