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.
ALAN ARKINEither you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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