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 ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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 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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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TV 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.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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