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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.

Alan Alda

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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Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
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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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
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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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Advice Avoid Change Dog Remember Stuff Surf
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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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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Along Come Communication Interest Position Scientific Whatever Wonderful
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Create Existence Life Meaningful Something Thought Unless Make
Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Director Notch Often Really Top Work
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Girl Give Lease Money More
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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Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Blow Catch Down Help Look Moment Rattlesnake Sat Several Volcano
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Do Docus Everybody Moment Relax Toe
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Level Normal Poison Simply Testosterone Until
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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Act Impulse Nobody People Punch Something
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up

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