” 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.
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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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 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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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 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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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