I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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