Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAEverybody’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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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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