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.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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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.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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