I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKIN” 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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But 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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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