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.
ALAN ALDAI let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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