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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.

Alan Arkin

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
ALAN ARKIN

Acting Actor Else Love Something Want
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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Answer Condition Everything Human Read Reflection Television
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
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.
ALAN ARKIN

Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
” 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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Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKIN

Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Been Fortunate Most Place Really Time Work
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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Business Love never
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
ALAN ARKIN

Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
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.
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Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
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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Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKIN

Absolute Always Truth Unfold
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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Immerse Life People Purpose Real Wanna
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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All Improve Improvisation Learn Life One Thing
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKIN

Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work

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