You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years. — 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
'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
What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I… — 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
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
