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.
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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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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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 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 know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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