Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDAIn 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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