[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINHollywood 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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