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 ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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” 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 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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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