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.
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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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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” 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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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