I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINIf you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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 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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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