I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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