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 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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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You 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.
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