It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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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 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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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