You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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