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I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.
- Alan Arkin
#Character
#History
#Love
#Stupid
#Work
I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.
- Alan Arkin
#Hero
#I Am
#People
#Start
#Work
If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.
- Alan Arkin
#Character
#Live
#Mind
#Negative
#People
Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.
- Alan Arkin
#Goals
#Long
#Nice
#Person
#Success
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.
- Alan Arkin
#Brain
#Feel
#Good
#Love
#Science
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
- Alan Arkin
#He
#Out
#Started
#Up
#Wave
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
#Eating
#Life
#Live
#Purpose
#Snake
I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.
- Alan Arkin
#Clock
#Doing
#Feel
#Time
#Trying
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
- Alan Arkin
#Family
#Father
#Great
#Singing
#Time
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
- Alan Arkin
#Doing
#Unless
#Word
#Written Word
#You
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
#Future
#Illusion
#Life
#Science
#Time
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
#Competition
#Feel
#Important
#See
#Time
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
#Age
#Me
#People
#Performance
#World
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'
- Alan Arkin
#Go
#Good
#Me
#Movies
#Stay
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
- Alan Arkin
#Bible
#Movies
#People
#Simple
#Time
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
#20th Century
#Life
#Like
#People
#Things
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
#Calm
#Glory
#Look
#Sea
#Way
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
#Education
#Help
#Information
#Knowledge
#Mean
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.
- Alan Arkin
#Age
#Old Age
#Old
#Privilege
#Remember
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
#Intuition
#Matter
#Parenting
#Time
#Up
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