It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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