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
ALAN ARKINNo matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKIN -
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN -
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKIN -
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN -
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN -
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN