For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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