As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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