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… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can… — 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
There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
