black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKIN

Go Matter Miss Missing Something
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN

Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKIN

Fall Risk Thinking
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKIN

Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN

Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKIN

Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKIN

Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious
” 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.
ALAN ARKIN

Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKIN

Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
ALAN ARKIN

Business Love never
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKIN

Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKIN

All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless

I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Arkin Quotes