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.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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” 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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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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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