I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
ALAN ARKINMost of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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