"The years I spent paying my dues are……" — Alan Arkin
"The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad."
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21 Quotes by Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin has 21 quotes on this site.
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Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that…
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I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means…
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times.…
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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
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It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard…
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If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it.…
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Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play…
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My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians.…
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
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