I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKIN
We 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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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The 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.
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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