I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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 think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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