I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
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
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 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
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I… — 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… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
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
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state,… — 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 read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if… — 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 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
Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult… — 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
