I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINI read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINImprovisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
ALAN ARKINTV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINFor many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINHollywood 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 ARKINI see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINCreativity 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.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
ALAN ARKINEvery physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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