Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
ALAN ARKINTV 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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