Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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 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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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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