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.
ALAN ARKINI know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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” 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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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