Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine Alan Arkin Quotes

#1. Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

Faith Popcorn

#2. Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

Jessica Park

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

Alan Arkin

#4. God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. He was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world had been held in a stable, him included. But soon, soon it was going to bust out all over the place.

Dennis Lehane

#6. I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.

Bob Schieffer

#7. But we always avoided talking about these things - difficult things - and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

Catherine Lacey

#8. Fucking hope. Next thing you'd know, I'd be getting soft and sentimental and teary-eyed over puppies and kittens and rainbows.

Jennifer Estep

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

Ken Follett

#12. If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Lindsay Wagner

#13. Self-knowledge would not especially need the sickly soul as well as the sound one; in short, whether the mere will to health is not a prejudice, a cowardice, and perhaps an instance of the subtlest barbarism and unprogressiveness ?

Friedrich Nietzsche