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.
ALAN ARKINAnd then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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