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.
ALAN ARKIN” 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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