Alan Arkin Quotes, Party Quotes, Heart 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. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

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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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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

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I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

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

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There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

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If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

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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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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

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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. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

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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. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

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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. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

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I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, 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.

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