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I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. — Alan Arkin

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that. — Alan Arkin

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will. — Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something. — Alan Arkin

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

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

I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it. — Alan Arkin

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned. — Alan Arkin

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it. — Alan Arkin

I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal. — 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. — Alan Arkin

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was ... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5. — 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 of applause because I'm not keeling over. — Alan Arkin

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov ... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin

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

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right. — 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

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly. — Alan Arkin

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery. — Alan Arkin

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong. — Alan Arkin

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things. — Alan Arkin

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word. — Alan Arkin

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

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential. — Alan Arkin

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary. — Alan Arkin

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

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever. — Alan Arkin

I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don't get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck. — Alan Arkin

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. — Alan Arkin

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. — Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. — Alan Arkin

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

A director without a vision is a catastrophe. — Alan Arkin

I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time. — Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. — Alan Arkin

I can't even pretend to play golf. — Alan Arkin

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

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave. — Alan Arkin

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead. — Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. — Alan Arkin