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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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