A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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” 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.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work 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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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