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
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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