Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINI’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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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