It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINMy favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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’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.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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