The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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