I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINConfronting 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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