Alan Arkin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We shred every day.
-
It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
-
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
-
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
-
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
-
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
-
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
-
I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
-
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
-
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
-
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
-
I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
-
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-
I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
-
It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.
-
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
-
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
-
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
-
When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
-
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
