[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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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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