I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
ALAN ALDAWhen people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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.
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