As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKININ order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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