I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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