If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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That’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.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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