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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.

Alan Arkin

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Commercial Country Extension Feel Figure Now Out Rather Tell
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKIN

Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKIN

Business Love never
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKIN

Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
ALAN ARKIN

Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
ALAN ARKIN

Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work
I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
ALAN ARKIN

Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKIN

Done Fake Hit Movie
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN

Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKIN

Cost Honest Learn Marriage Require Sear Third Wife
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work
I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKIN

Anything Back Believe Fix
” 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.
ALAN ARKIN

Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves

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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