I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKINIf you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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