” 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.
ALAN ARKINNo matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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