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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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