I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
ALAN ARKINI’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINI’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINNo 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.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKINAll 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.
ALAN ARKINHollywood 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.
ALAN ARKINThat’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.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINWe might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKINWhat I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINBut one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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