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Alan Arkin

American Actor

Born: Mar 26, 1934

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You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. Alan Arkin

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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. Alan Arkin

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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something. Alan Arkin

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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. Alan Arkin

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That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember. Alan Arkin

You Age Remember Old Old Age Privilege

The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York! Alan Arkin

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Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things. Alan Arkin

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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. Alan Arkin

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

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I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it. Alan Arkin

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I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me. Alan Arkin

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For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly. Alan Arkin

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I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States. Alan Arkin

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A director without a vision is a catastrophe. Alan Arkin

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

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I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming. Alan Arkin

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I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave. Alan Arkin

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My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won't be offended. Alan Arkin

I can't even pretend to play golf. Alan Arkin

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It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. Alan Arkin

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I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors. Alan Arkin

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