As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKINFor many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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 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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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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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