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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
Tags: make, wrong, new, myself

Other Quotes by "Alan Arkin"

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
— Alan Arkin
Tags: written, word, doing, you
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
— Alan Arkin
Tags: looking, opportunity, you, learning
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
Tags: time, you, science, life
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
— Alan Arkin
Tags: people, time, simple, you
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
Tags: been, acting, doing, always
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