As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKINAs hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINNo matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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 ARKINIt keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKINBut one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
ALAN ARKINI don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
ALAN ARKINTen years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINIt doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKINNo 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.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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 ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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