One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
ALAN ALDAI really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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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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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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