For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — 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
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
It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet… — 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 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
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and… — 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
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy -… — 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
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your… — 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
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 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
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 don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
