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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I 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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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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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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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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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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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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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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” 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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I 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.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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