Alan Arkin Quotes

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

Alan Arkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1934

Topics

AgePeopleMeWorldPerformanceWhy

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicMessIndustryFragmented

Honestly, if they were Christian refugees coming in, I think the Obama administration would vet them a little more toughly.

Jesse Watters

ThinkChristianMoreRefugeesLittle

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

Jennifer Lynch

SunsetTimeMeFirst TimeOldFirst

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

John Hutton

CultureNewCallIdeaNew Idea

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

WarWorldPoliticalYouBornMoral

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

HopeMeThinkYouGuiltyBecome

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

Roger Taylor

ThoughtEventsSeeThroughPlaying

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Louis Farrakhan

PeoplePotentialWhiteHumans

There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

Lloyd Blankfein

LifeBaseballBetterGolfYouHard

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Jonathan Haidt

TeamBlindRealityYouComplicated

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.

Diana Quick

LifeLoveFatherMotherDressMe

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Diego Della Valle

BusinessYourselfYouSeriouslyTake

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