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.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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