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.
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 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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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 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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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