You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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 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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