I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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