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.
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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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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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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Musicals 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.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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