” 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.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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.
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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.
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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 don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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