And 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.
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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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