I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINI’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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