Alan Arkin Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Alan Arkin

  Teaching, Mean, Ideas

  "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Bunch, Enthusiastic

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  People, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Thinking, Two, Figures

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Book, Reading, Intuition

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Winning, Arbitrary, Actors

  "OSCARS Q&A: Alan Arkin". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Alan Arkin

  Opportunity, Identity, Labels

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

  Alan Arkin

  Fake, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Lester Siegel". "Argo", www.imdb.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

  Alan Arkin

  Trying, Acting, Together

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

  Alan Arkin

  Empresa

  Source: deadline.com

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• Se empieza a ver una amalgama de culturas, el verdadero comienzo de un solo mundo. Hace diez años, habría sido imposible imaginar a un grupo de cantantes cockney con un estilo negro sureño y música india y electrónica. Me pregunto si la gente se ha dado cuenta de la tremenda señal cultural que son los Beatles.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Años, Gente

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Country, Soup, Warhol

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Order, Snakes

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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.

  Alan Arkin

  Horse, Hard Times, Competition

  "OSCARS Q&A: Alan Arkin". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Alan Arkin

  Couple, Guitar, Groups

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Hollywood es un lugar extraño. La estructura de clases aquí es más rígida que en casi cualquier otro lugar que haya conocido. Es más difícil por el hecho de que cambia constantemente. Nunca sabes a qué clase perteneces, a menos que seas una de las dos o tres personas que llevan mucho, mucho tiempo en el mismo escalón.

  Alan Arkin

  Strange Places, Class, Two

  "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

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