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.
ALAN ALDAMusicals 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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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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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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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