Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
ALAN ARKINThere’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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 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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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