You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINThings are never going to turn out how you think they will.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Hollywood 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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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