Alan Arkin Quotes

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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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Fun
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Now
  • Listen
  • Kick

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Song
  • Technology
  • Sound

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Criticism
  • Experiences

• I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Important
  • Family
  • Black

• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Work
  • Done
  • Best

• I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Cultures

• I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Introvert

• Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Understanding
  • Daily

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Place
  • Fish

• Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Couple

• An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Affects

• You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Friendships

• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Truth
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Peace

• I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

  

  John Cameron
  • Up

• It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Basketball
  • Court
  • Mentality

• It's really developed into somewhat of a short-term rivalry, which is kind of nice.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Nice
  • Developed
  • Rivalry

• We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Control
  • Balance
  • Exercise

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• 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