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Alan Arkin

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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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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 suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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 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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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