I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
ALAN ALDAI’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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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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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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