128 Quotes by Alan Arkin

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

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

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

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

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.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

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

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.