Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINAnd then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKINThat’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.
ALAN ARKIN” 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.
ALAN ARKINTruth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINThe 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.
ALAN ARKINFor many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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 ARKINYou never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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 ARKINI don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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 ARKINThings are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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.
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