Alan Arkin Quotes

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.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

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.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM