I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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