Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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.
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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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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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 don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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