It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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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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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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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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