I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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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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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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