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
Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family… — 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
