I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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