We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKINThe ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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