Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDAEveryone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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