Alan Arkin Quotes

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Die
  • Famous
  • Before

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Die
  • Anything

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Best
  • Find

• In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Know
  • Die
  • Politics

• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Legacy
  • Him

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Real
  • Character
  • Future

• There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

  

  Eric Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Cold

• I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Question

• My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Rain

• I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Die