Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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