Top 73 Quotes by Alan Arkin

About Alan Arkin

These are some quotes by American author Alan Arkin Actor, who was born on March 26, 1934.

I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time.

I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time.

Alan Arkin

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

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.

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

I can't even pretend to play golf.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

Alan Arkin

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

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

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.

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.

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

Alan Arkin

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

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

Alan Arkin

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

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