I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINI don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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All 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.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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 believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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