IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINThere’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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