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.
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
-
-
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKIN -
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKIN -
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKIN -
I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKIN -
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKIN -
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKIN -
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKIN -
You 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 ARKIN -
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
ALAN ARKIN -
I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKIN -
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN -
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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 ARKIN -
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKIN -
You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
ALAN ARKIN






