Quotes by Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin

‘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.

Bunch

Enthusiastic

Years

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Identity

Labels

Opportunity

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

Actors

Arbitrary

Winning

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

Artist

Believe

Competition

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix. 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.

Believe

Past

Philosophy

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.

Order

Real

Snakes

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.

Doe

Mystery

Thinking

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

Busy

Three

Two

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.

Competition

Hard Times

Horse

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.

Believe

Men

People

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Acting

Actors

Arbitrary

Artist

Believe

Book

Boyfriend

Bunch

Busy

Comedy

Community

Competition

Country

Doe

Eight

Enthusiastic

Hard Times

Honesty

Horse

Identity

Intuition

Kind

Labels

Littles

Matter

Men

Missing

Moving

Mystery

Opportunity

Order

Past

People

Philosophy

Reading

Real

Relationship

Serious

Snakes

Sometimes

Soup

Stars

Thinking

Three

Together

Trying

Two

Want

Warhol

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Quotes by Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin

‘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.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

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

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

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.

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

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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