I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKINIt’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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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 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 had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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