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.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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