Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINEven at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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I 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.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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” 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.
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