Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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 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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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