My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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