You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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 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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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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 suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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