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.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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 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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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