If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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