It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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