I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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” 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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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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