Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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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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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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