Movie Quotes by Alan Arkin

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.

— Alan Arkin

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

— Alan Arkin

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

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

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

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

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

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

— Alan Arkin

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

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

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

I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

— Alan Arkin

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

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