I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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’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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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