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You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Big Calm Career Deciding Glory Going Gonna Look March Ocean Sea Small Some Sometimes Steady Take Think Upward Wave Waves Way Which You Your

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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Affects Agree Ancient Anything Back Believe Fix Future Go Hindu Huge Illusion Life Modern Modern Science Now Oldest Past Philosophy Science Thing Time True You

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I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: About All Things Attached Being Care Director Equal Factors Good Good Director Good Script Important Less Like Matter Me Names Part Play Script Than Things Those Two Work Would

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

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Age Old Old Age Privilege Remember You

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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Came Century Discoveries Dropping Greatest Improvisation Improvising Learned Life Like One Of The Things Out People Scientific Some Things Whether You 20Th Century

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

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Busy Gotta Happy Keep Things Three Two Unless Working

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A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Catastrophe Director Vision Without

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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

Topics: Age Applause Because Become Certain Certain Age Died Elder Get Hit Lot Over Statesman Think You I Think

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I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Because Becomes Doing Eating Immersed Inform Just Life Live Order Otherwise Own People Purpose Real Real Life Real People Snake Tail Wanna

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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

Topics: Age Analyze Certain Certain Things Did Eight Even Me Move Moved People Performance Realize Seven Six Things Tried Used Watch Why World Would I Tried

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 26th, 1934

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