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

• I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Just
  • Number
  • Facebook

• 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

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• 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

• I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.

  Chad Hurley
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

  

  Bruce Sterling

• I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Time
  • Film
  • Graduation

• Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

  

  Mark Dayton
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• 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