black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Alan Arkin

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Arbitrary Best Connect Isolate Physicist Thing Universe Win Work
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN

Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKIN

All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKIN

Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
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
ALAN ARKIN

Act Another Improvisation Introduce Jazz More Seem Sometimes Theme Verbal
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKIN

Fall Risk Thinking
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKIN

Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
ALAN ARKIN

All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKIN

Business Corporate Experimental Formulaic Less More
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Business Know People
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKIN

Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKIN

Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
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 ARKIN

Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
ALAN ARKIN

Bunch Enthusiastic Lean Lot Thing Widely Year

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Arkin Quotes