Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKINYou 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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 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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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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