Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKIN
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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