If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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