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.
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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TV 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.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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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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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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