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

Alan Arkin

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Alan Arkin
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 26
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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 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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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
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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. 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've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.
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If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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.
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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 gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.
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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, in order to inform what I'm doing otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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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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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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Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of the time, I've been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with. It doesn't mean we don't take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we're) bringing world peace.
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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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