But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDALoneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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 really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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