We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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 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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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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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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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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