During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDABut often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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