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 ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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