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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

Alan Alda

When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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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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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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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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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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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

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