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ALAN ALDAI 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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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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