As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKIN
Every 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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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