Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKINWe might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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