Alan Arkin

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.

— Alan Arkin

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

— Alan Arkin

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see…

— Alan Arkin

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the…

— Alan Arkin

Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the…

— Alan Arkin

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

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

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

— Alan Arkin

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best…

— Alan Arkin

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

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I…

— Alan Arkin

I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

— Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I…

— Alan Arkin

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach…

— Alan Arkin

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on…

— Alan Arkin

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it…

— Alan Arkin

I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.

— Alan Arkin

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

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

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

— Alan Arkin

“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something…

— Alan Arkin

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

— Alan Arkin

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would…

— Alan Arkin

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