It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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