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.
ALAN ALDADon’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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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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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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 brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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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.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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