If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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