“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment.… — 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
