Alan Arkin Quotes

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Alan Arkin

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• Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

  

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• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

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• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

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• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

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• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

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• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

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• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

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• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

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• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

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• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  

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• I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

  

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• The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

  

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• All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Compassion