But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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