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.
ALAN ALDAI guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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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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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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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