IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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