As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDAThey wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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 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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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