Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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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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Hollywood 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.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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