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 ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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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.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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