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.
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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.
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” 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.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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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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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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