Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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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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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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