I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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