IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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