No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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