It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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” 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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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 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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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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