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
I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows?… — 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 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
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — 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
Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't… — 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
