Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
ALAN ARKIN
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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