There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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