Alan Arkin Quotes
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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
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For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.
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You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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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.
