Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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