Alan Arkin Quotes

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.