I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
-
-
I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKIN -
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKIN -
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKIN -
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
ALAN ARKIN -
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKIN -
And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
ALAN ARKIN -
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKIN -
I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
ALAN ARKIN -
No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKIN -
Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
ALAN ARKIN -
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.
ALAN ARKIN -
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKIN -
Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
ALAN ARKIN