Alan Arkin Quotes

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.

It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.

Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.

It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.

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.