Alan Arkin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.”

“Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.”

“I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.”

“I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.”

“Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.”