Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINTen years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKINThe 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.
ALAN ARKINNo matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINWe might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINYou can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
ALAN ARKINImprovisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINThings are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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