I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKINThere’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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