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.
ALAN ALDAA really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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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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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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