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.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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 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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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” 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.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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