” 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.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
ALAN ARKIN -
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKIN -
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN -
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKIN -
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKIN -
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKIN -
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
ALAN ARKIN -
Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
ALAN ARKIN -
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKIN -
That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
ALAN ARKIN -
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN -
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKIN