I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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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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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.
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