We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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 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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” 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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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