You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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 had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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