If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKINIf you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINNo matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKINThe ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINTV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKINAll 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.
ALAN ARKINHollywood 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.
ALAN ARKINI see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKIN