I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not.… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share
I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them. — Alan Arkin Copy Share
I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to… — Alan Arkin Copy Share
