I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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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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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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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