” 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.
ALAN ARKINIt keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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