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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.

Alan Arkin

I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKIN

Business Love never
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN

Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Ahead Community Connect Little Mave Movie Own Road Theatre
I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Anything Back Believe Fix
What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKIN

Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN

Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Business Know People
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Explore Learn Limit Look Opportunity Probing
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKIN

Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Best Depend Life Little Paycheck Regard Send Stuff Take What
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN

Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN

Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
ALAN ARKIN

Ancient Future Hindu Huge Illusion Modern Now Oldest Past Philosophy Science Time Vedas
Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
ALAN ARKIN

Conclusion Kind Least Mean Some Somehow Together Try Work

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