I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKIN[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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