But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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