Alan Arkin Quotes
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
Quotes to Explore
-
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-
The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
-
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
-
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
-
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
-
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
-
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
-
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
-
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
-
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
-
When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
-
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
-
It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
-
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
-
One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
-
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
-
Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.
-
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
