It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINEvery physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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