Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
ALAN ARKINWhat I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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