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.
ALAN ARKINYou can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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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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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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 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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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