American - Actor | March 26, 1934 -
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
Alan Arkin
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The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
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I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time.
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My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won't be offended.
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I can't even pretend to play golf.
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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 that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
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It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
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My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need to act any more. Financially, I do. But emotionally, it wouldn't matter to me if I never acted again.
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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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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 working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
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If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.
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