You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINYou know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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” 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.
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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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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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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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 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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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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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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