I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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