Alan Arkin Quotes

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.

Alan Arkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessGoalsThinkLongYouPerson

It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.

Jimmy Smits

WorkProudFeelYouWayMore

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

Jess Walter

WarEndDoneMoreTurnOut

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Joel Osteen

HomeFutureCarTodayMirrorPast

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

John Hurt

AmbitionNeverWhateverStarStill

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium.

Anita Sarkeesian

WomenPresentGenerationMediaLens

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Tracy Austin

SisterFeetTallSheOppositesFour

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Robbie Robertson

LoveMusicBeginningMountainsI Am

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

Dick Cavett

FoolCareHelpYouLostTalk

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

Doug Liman

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Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.

Chris Crutcher

AgeSimpleWordsLearnWayEconomy

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

Chloe Pirrie

FamilyArtistDownPersonKindLine

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

Conor Oberst

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