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.
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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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” 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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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