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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.

Alan Arkin

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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Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
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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Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Done Fake Hit Movie
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Acting Came Enormous Many Obstacle Place Some Surround Year
I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
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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Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
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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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN

Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Go Matter Miss Missing Something
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Go Know never Out React Thing Turn
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Business Know People
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKIN

Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
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
ALAN ARKIN

Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal

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