I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute… — 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
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
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 gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not.… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I… — 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
