Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKINFor many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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