We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKINWe might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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 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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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