IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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The 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.
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