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Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Acting Better Couple Guitar Guitar Players Hope How Knew Made Me Over Play Played Players Playing Same Same Thing Spectacular Than Them Thing True Years

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My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: All People Around Family Father Folk Great Hung Knew Like Lot Musicians Painter Paul People Singing Time Were Woody

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

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Fact Kids Know Me Proudest Still Talk

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NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Because Brain Done Example Feel Fiction First For Example Good Got Just Like Love Matrix Monsters Order Philosophy Really Science Science Fiction Someone Takes Thinks Watching Well I Feel I Feel Like

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

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Actor Everybody Goes Out Particularly Tide You

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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: About Bunch Connected Enthusiastic Everybody Failure Had Huge Lean Lot Off Things Where Which Wildly Years

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It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Anything Bottom Bottom Line Everybody Failing Failure Good Learn Line Look Looking Time Without You

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I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Long Mind Once Plays Them Watching While

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I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Camera Improvising Like Makes Missing Often Once Particularly Play Realize Rehearse Scene Sense Something Twice Until Very Will Working You

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

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Being Craft Get Had Hard Past Stage Terrified Very Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 26th, 1934

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