I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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 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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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 had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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