IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINIt’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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