Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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” 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 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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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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