Alan Arkin Messages
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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.
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.
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.
You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.
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.
'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.
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.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?