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.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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 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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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.
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