Little Miss Sunshine Alan Arkin Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of everything you believe you can achieve in life you will. — Gregory C. Dugger

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

People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly. — Erik Naggum

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. — William James

I'm glad folks say That I think outside the box; that means I have more room for creativity — Darrius Garrett

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it. — Juice Newton

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one. — Alan Arkin

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov

Slowly I became possessed by the absurd conviction that everything was possible, and it seemed to me that even those deserted streets and that hostile wind smelled of hope. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. — Groucho Marx

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time. — Theodore Dalrymple

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. — Alan Arkin

I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going. — Nan Kempner

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature — Samuel Johnson