No matter how much time you spend reading books or... -Alan Arkin

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

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Alan Arkin is an American actor and director. He has appeared in numerous films and stage productions, showcasing his exceptional acting skills and versatility. Arkin's performances have earned him accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His talent and contribution to the world of acting have solidified his status as a respected figure in the industry.

Alan Arkin Quotes to Explore

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right....

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 ti...

'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 ...

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

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commer...

What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and...

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 ...

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or n...

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how b...

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something....

Parenting Quotes to Explore

If nothing changes, if kids don't get good education and parenting, we'll lose....

Parenting isn't how I imagined it....

Solo parenting is harder than Premier football. It's mentally tough....

Certainly, workers in many industries do not have the privilege of being able to balance parenting at the workplace, and we must fight especially hard...

There's a lot of external issues that have a ripple effect on a family and a lot of internal, practical parenting challenges that families are trying ...

I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and...

As a father you're guilty until proven innocent. You're a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be...

If you put twenty parents in a room together, they will all have different parenting styles due to how they were raised and how they choose to raise t...

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different style of p...

I listen to parenting books on tape....