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.
ALAN ARKINIncorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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