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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

Alan Alda

I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Beg Demand Everyone Expression Politician Press Religious
I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Ability Exercise Hard Key Now Same Talent Time Tune
Kids are natural scientists.
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Kid Natural Scientist
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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Character Find Put Way Word
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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According Every Inmate Nearly Prison Remarkable Told
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Business Call Out Product School Self
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Anger Angry Flash Image People Person

Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

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