"I know that if I can't move people,……" — Alan Arkin

"I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor."

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21 Quotes by Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that…
"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means…
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times.…
No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard…
If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it.…
Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play…
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians.…
I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past…

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