My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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’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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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 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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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