I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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 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 I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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