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.
ALAN ARKINI’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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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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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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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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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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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